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...Viennese crowded against police lines around the opera, listening to Fidelia through loudspeakers. Inside, the work's gloomy sets and stern plot seemed hardly a match for the festive occasion, but the audience cheered the triumphant aptness of its subject: freedom. Of the stars, Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler as Don Pizarro was a standout; Soprano Martha Moedl as Leonore was more effective dramatically than vocally. The orchestra, conducted by Opera Director Karl Böhm, won six salvos of applause after it played the famous Leonore Overture...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Die Meistersinger, with De los Angeles, Schoeffler, Hopf...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Tosca, with Kirsten, Tagliavini, Schoeffler...
...also, if he chooses, go to hear European artists who might never have crossed the Atlantic except for their record successes. London Records takes credit for popularizing Singers Kathleen Ferrier, Hilde Gueden, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Schoeffler; Pianists Clifford Curzon, Friedrich Gulda; Conductor Ernest Ansermet. Cloe Elmo, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo and Cesare Siepi were introduced to U.S. collectors by Cetra-Soria records before they were hired by the Metropolitan Opera...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Alcestis, with Flagstad, Sullivan, Schoeffler, Pernerstorfer...