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...middle range. Her performances of Norma (eight of them) were enthusiastic sellouts. Last week she was collecting more bravos in a difficult role in which even her most ardent admirers had feared for her: the vocally acrobatic part of Constanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio...
Last week enterprising Tom Scherman, 34, was in the midst of his most ambitious and successful musical venture yet: concert versions of opera. He had experimented with concert opera before-Orfeo ed Euridice two years ago (TIME, March 14, 1949) and Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio last season. Abduction was such a hit that he decided to repeat it this season and add two more Mozart operas, Cost Fan Tutte and Idomeneo. To Scherman, all were "particularly suited" for concert versions because "stagewise they are big bores...
...given Met audiences many a performance they might not have seen but for him: the Met's first Abduction from the Seraglio of Mozart, the first Alceste of Gluck, Mussorgsky's Khovanchina. He had resurrected the dusty Marriage of Figaro (now one of the Met's best performances and biggest hits), Boris Godunov, Otello, Falstaff. He brought the best of Europe's singers to the Met, but he made his era the era of the American singer too: in this year's roster of 108 singers, more than half are U.S.-born...
Bright & Bubbling. The festival was not merely a Dutch exposition. Jennie Tourel, perhaps the finest Carmen now singing, gave a performance in the role. The polished Vienna State Opera gave a bright and bubbling performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and was scheduled to perform Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Der Rosenkavalier before the festival ends next week...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, with Soprano Eleanor Steber, Tenor Charles Kullmann...