Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vienna premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream in the city's renowned Staatsoper, the Austrian government bestowed its highest musical tribute on the Connecticut-born beauty singing the leading role of Titania. She was Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall, 34, who for the past ten years has made Vienna home base and last year took her first bows at the Met. Her new title: Kammersängerin (chamber singer), the first time an American-born artist has ever received the award...
...great opera-or even a very good one. Chénier, as General Manager Rudolf Bing candidly admitted, was the right length for an opener, and it had enough intermissions (three) to give first-nighters plenty of touring time in corridors, restaurant and lobbies. With Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Eileen Farrell in the lead roles, Chénier gave the audience an evening easy on the ears-and light on the emotions...
...Soprano Ingrid Bjoner was generally first rate as a shyly aggressive Eva. Bass Karl Doench was appropriately repellent as Beckmesser, the malevolent town clerk whom Wagner created as a caricature of one of his most caustic critics-Viennese Music Critic Eduard Hanslick. The chorus and extras were drilled with spectacular precision, creating at the end of Act II one of the most convincing pillow-throwing, hair-pulling riots a Met Meistersinger has ever seen...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Tenor Richard Tucker, Ballerina Maria Tallchief, Soprano Patrice Munsel...
...complex, Philharmonic Hall attracted to its stage last week a Barnum-sized bushel of musical talent. On opening night, Conductor Bernstein used not only the Philharmonic but also three choruses (the Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Metropolitan Opera, assorted pianists (including Van Cliburn), and by Adlai Stevenson, who, in excellent voice...