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...message from the Metropolitan Opera, warning that she might have to substitute for an ailing Susanna (Nadine Conner) in that night's performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and advising her to go home and rest up. Pretty Roberta went home, all right, but not to rest; she had never sung the opera, had not even studied it for five years. She called in a relay of coaches, who put her through the plot, brushed her up on the endless chatter of Italian recitatives, reminded her of the Metropolitan's new stage layout...
Musically, nobody needed to worry. Coloratura Peters has a voice of exceptional purity and the kind of confidence and musicianship that critics like to call aplomb. Onstage for almost all of Figaro's 2½-hour performance, she skipped through Susanna's role without blowing a cue, delivered herself of some of the sweetest-sounding high notes to be heard anywhere. The packed audience loved her and the press next day agreed. "A direct hi., ' said the Daily News...
Putting its best hunch forward, the Metropolitan Opera signed Vienna's buxom Soprano Irmgard Seefried this season. Last week she bowed as Susanna, the maid in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and turned out to be the hit of the evening. She bounced around as a properly improper young peasant girl, conniving enthusiastically, clucking her disapproval of other people's peccadilloes, escaping from her own tight jams, seeming to enjoy every minute. Almost from the moment of her entrance, she had the Met audience laughing in delight...
...Road. Susanna will be Seefried's only role at the Met this season (she will sing it five times). But in signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade...
...other Whitman elections, Susanna R. Boocock '55 of New York was elected social chairman, while Eleanor Dearing '55 of Chevy Chase, Maryland and Elsa Leisy '55 of Cleveland were named co-work chairmen...