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Carlotta Wilsen combined flexibility with an ability to draw out sustained passages in a fine performance of the soprano arias. Don Meaders was forceful and poised singing Herod. As the Evangelist, Henry Gibbons sang with ease and lucid diction; his performance was solidly musical at every point...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Focusing on the traditional, Florence Henderson hosts "Christmas Through the Ages" with Soprano Mary Costa, Baritone Sherrill Milnes and musical comedy stars Anita Gillette and Bruce Yarnell...
...scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously paced hallelujahs, is hard-hitting theater. The second new recording, by the London Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Colin Davis (Philips), manages to scale the same emotional heights, but with less apparent effort. Moreover, Davis has a superior soprano in Heather Harper, whose floating arias alone are worth the price of the records...
Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...
Baritone Tom Weber, who looks more like a burgher-meister than a peasant, sings freely and clearly although without much range of emotion. Spring Fairbank sings the soprano in both cantatas smoothly and precisely. She is especially fine in the Coffee Cantata, which has a real plot, and a ridiculous one at that; Miss Fairbank milks almost as many laughs from her coffee aria as Richard Fermin does later from the Beatles. James Jones as Schlendrian has a wonderful voice, but his over-acting was almost painful by the time the cantata ended...