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Prades (July 2-18) will present famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 78, in his sixth festival, this one devoted to music of Bach, Schubert and Brahms. Other soloists: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin; Pianists Eugene Istomin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski; Singers Eleanor Steber, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Jan Peerce...
...which can lay its hands on an astonishing number of top-drawer singers when it has a mind to, filled the cast with stars: Hilde Gueden and Eleanor Steber as the pretty sisters, Blanche Thebom as their mother, Brian Sullivan and George London as the suitors. Ralph Herbert (in a creditable Met debut) was the father, and Coloratura Roberta Peters was an impudent little flirt. Newcomer Rudolf Kempe fanned the Met orchestra to a fine performance, but the playing was so loud that it recalled the time when Strauss himself shouted from the back of a rehearsal hall: "Louder! Louder...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Guest Conductor Sir Adrian Boult and Soloists Eleanor Steber and Jan Peerce...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Giovanni, with London, Steber, Conner, Conley...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Fledermaus, with Steber, Munsel, Hayward...