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...countdown is on. Thirteen months from now Soprano Beverly Sills will at long last make her debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera. It will be an event both long awaited and long overdue. Sills will be 45 when she steps onto the Met stage in Rossini's The Siege of Corinth, and the question is whether, at an age when many divas fade, she will still possess the fabulous voice and technique. The uncertainty exists because she does have occasional off nights, and may be performing too much for her own good. But she is a crowned...
...Callas was canceling because of a sore throat. The 2,800 fans, some of whom had paid as much as $100 a ticket, were disappointed, even tearful, but not altogether surprised. Maria had done the same thing in London in September. Many promised to try again when the volatile soprano is next scheduled to visit New York, later in her current three-month North American tour. The turn of events may have actually raised sales for future Callas appearances. As one fan put it: "The cancellation of this recital is more exciting than any concert I've been...
First among its attractions, The Abduction is by Mozart--and everybody likes Mozart. There are some fine arias in it, notably "Marten aller Arten" for the principal soprano Constanze, and an intricately melodic quartet in which the principal tenors question the fidelity of the women who have been held in captivity by amorous Turks...
...butchers "Marten aller Arten." She is perhaps very courageous, but she should have let her understudy sing. Ruth Elena Harcovitz was splendid as the spitfire lady-in-waiting to Constanze. With no orchestra pit in the Peabody School auditorium singers have to project through their accompaniment. Harcovitz's clean soprano and bright enunciation bring some of the best sound balance in the production...
...York, Kubelik decamped for Munich to fulfill previously scheduled conducting commitments and kept in touch with New York largely via phone and Telex exchanges. In his absence, things began to come apart, beginning in January with a spectacularly unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers, who is the best Tristan in the world right now, began to have second thoughts about making his Met debut in the role. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf apparently caught the pouts from him and nearly quit...