Word: tenoritis
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...should advise the directors of the Metropolitan, said Tenor Italo Campanini, "to tear out the inside of their building and rebuild...
...house is unfit for music." That was just after the Met concluded its first Manhattan season, and Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase...
Threni opens with the chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones...
...fresh operatic talent for a summer of seasoning in Italy. Winners would get round-trip fare to Italy and a living allowance, free coaching in Milan and a crack at singing professionally on Italian opera stages. Last week five of the first batch of eight winners (four sopranos, one tenor, two baritones, one bass) had a chance to show off their talents in a student production of La Bohème in Florence's famed Teatro della Pergola...
...hurled his brush clear offstage into the orchestra pit). But audience and critics were impressed by the Americans' voices and technique. The best voice in the group, many thought, belonged to Tacoma (Wash.) Baritone Roald Reitan, who sang briefly last year with the San Francisco Opera. Ohio-born Tenor Jean Deis, who was told when he was nine that scarlet fever would prevent him from ever speaking again, also got a generous round as Rodolfo. The most popular Americans were Texas Soprano Sara Rhodes Hageman, 25, whose Mimi Italians found "delicious," and Manhattan Showgirl-Soprano Marjorie Smith...