Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:30 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Die Walküre, with Soprano Helen Traubel, Tenor Lauritz Melchior...
...adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful for a glimpse, at last, of America's sweetheart. Producers found they could make money following the formula, which included pretty girls, costumes, music, and sets, a comedian, and a tenor, and they saw no need to try anything different...
...Irving Berlin is very much around with a huge and highly entertaining hit called "Annie Get Your Gun." Ethel Merman is the star, but you don't see her until well into the first act, after reams of talk about her, and otherwise the show is complete with tenor, girls, comedian, and all other standard equipment, the most important of which is the feeble plot. While the non-musical stage and even the movies have moved with the times, the musical-comedy, with few exceptions, has lingered lucratively in the past...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Rigoletto, with Swedish Soprano Hjoerdis Schymberg, Baritone Leonard Warren, Tenor Jan Peerce...
...Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel with whips. Miss Arden and ship's Captain Brian Donlevy look on as if they could think of far better things to do and say the minute the cameras stop...