Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Soprano Bidu Sayao, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling...
...Melchior said he would probably never sing opera in Boston again, "because . . . Boston would not allow German opera to be given here during the war." He said it was "nothing personal . . . simply a principle ... I believe that art has nothing to do with politics." Three nights later Tenor Melchior sang in concert in Boston, where the Met had given three Wagnerian operas in 1945 and Melchior had sung...
...rest of the evening was spent in uneasy warfare between those who wanted to stop the show every time Tagliavini sang a note, and those who wanted to get on with the proceedings. Critics generally found Tagliavini a very good, if not yet great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time...
Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). Igor Stravinsky conducts his Persephone. Soloist: Tenor William Hess...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, with Soprano Eleanor Steber, Tenor Charles Kullmann...