Word: tenore
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Bizet: Carmen (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Solange Michel, soprano; Michel Dens, baritone; Marthe Angelici, soprano, and others; chorus and orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique, with André Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Soprano Michel lacks the fire to make the title role burn as it should, but the performance as a whole is excellent and so is the recording...
Foss: The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Burton Trimble, tenor; Ruth Biller, soprano; Paul Ukena, bass-baritone, and others; Frederic Kurzweil, pianist; Lyrichord, 2 sides LP). Brilliant young (28) Lukas Foss's adaptation of Mark Twain makes Foss look like one of the brightest hopes of American opera. Well done by the enterprising After Dinner Opera Co. cast which gave the work its Manhattan premiere (TIME, June 19), The Frog even jumps smartly on records. Recording: good...
Puccini: The Girl of the Golden West (Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Ugo Savarese, baritone; Vasco Campagnano, tenor, and others; chorus and orchestra of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's "western" may have been rip-roaring stuff at its premiere at the Met in 1910, with Caruso singing and Toscanini conducting, but it sounds pretty flat now. Performance and recording: good...
Verdi: Nabucco (Paolo Silveri, baritone; Cabriella Gatti, soprano; Caterina Mancini, soprano; Mario Binci, tenor, and others; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Verdi's third opera, but the first to win him international fame. Composed when he was 29, Nabucco (short for Nebuchadnezzar) has much of the rousing spirit and power of Aïda and Otello. Performance and recording: excellent...
...Boston's Symphony Hall last week, 2,500 listeners heard the Boston Pops Orchestra accompany a tenor in those lines of Evening Prayer, then stood to cheer. The composer, whom they were applauding, could not stand to acknowledge the cheers; Robert Grant Jr., 27, is partially paralyzed with multiple sclerosis. But he bobbed his head happily from his wheelchair near the stage. "This is the greatest night of my life," he said...