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Thereafter, Mozart and a first-rate cast took over. There were no stars: Così is strictly an ensemble opera. But all hands -Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Patrice Munsel, Frank Guarrera, Richard Tucker, John Brownlee-somehow seemed to sing and look better than ever. They sang in understandable English, and carried themselves with the flawlessly sophisticated artificiality which Così, and Director Lunt, demanded...
...Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber's acting proved to be more in the statuesque old Met tradition than in Central City's nimble...
Barber: Knoxville, "Summer of 1915" (Eleanor Steber, soprano, with the Dumbarton Oaks Chamber Orchestra, William Strickland conducting; Columbia, I side LP). James Agee's autobiographical essay of the same name appealingly set to song; Soprano Steber, who commissioned the music, sings it beautifully. Recording: excellent...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Der Rosenkavalier, with Stevens, Steber, Baum...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, with Eleanor Steber and Richard Tucker...