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Vienna had heard of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, but it did not expect that a voice which had pleased the Met would necessarily be good enough to please Vienna. The Viennese suspended judgment when they heard that an American soprano named Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, W. Va., was coming to town for a lead role in their June music festival. Soprano Steber, making the first continental tour of her career, suspended judgment, too. By last week she was the bit of Vienna...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lohengrin, with Sullivan, Steber, Harshaw, Sigurd Bjoerling...
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Richard Tucker, Frank Guarrera; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Fritz Stiedry; Columbia). One of the frothiest librettos in opera, in English adaptation, and clean-cut performances of some of Mozart's most winning tunes. The "official" Met version...
...sets apart, reset the best of the gloomy old forms against fields of bright new color. The Met had a vivid new set, "dirt cheap" (about $15,000), and a first-class singing cast topped by Tenor Hans Hopf in his first Met performance of Lohengrin and Soprano Eleanor Steber as Elsa...
Verdi: Otello (excerpts) (Ramon Vinay, tenor; Eleanor Steber, soprano; Frank Guarrera, baritone; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). This anthology includes the best duets and arias of Verdi's best opera. Vinay defends his title as the finest Moor of the day, and Steber makes a pure-voiced Desdemona; Guarrera is not malignant enough to do Iago full justice. Recording: excellent...