Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford Festival (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBCTV) is an hour-long look at Tenor James Melton juicily singing such chestnuts as My Wild Irish Rose, or walking through a scene from Madame Butterfly. Each musical number is scored, acted and costumed as though it were the finale. Also on hand: Monologist Vera Vague; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Commercials: unobtrusive films of the latest Ford models...
...Angeles-born Soprano Ann Ayars looked and sounded well in the part of the loving, pleasure-mad, 18th Century Manon. What she lacked in artfulness, her gallant and unhappy lover made up in charm and ardor. As the Chevalier des Grieux, young (27) Philadelphia-born Tenor David Poleri turned out to be one of the finds of the season. Laszlo Halasz, director of City Opera, heard Poleri last fall on a Chicago radio show. Handsome Poleri sang Des Grieux as if he had learned it straight from Caruso; his voice, less powerful and assured, is sweeter, lighter in color...
With the exception of one Workshop professor who sang the role of Gurnemanz, the singers were all graduate and undergraduate students of the university. To lighten the singing load (and share the experience), there were two Parsifals and two Kundrys. A standout performance: that of Tenor Guy Owen Baker, 27, a veteran of all three Bloomington Parsifals, who sang the title role in Acts...
...crop of good solo voices, Marko Rothmuller, as Jesus, sang with a dignity and dramatic awareness occasionally spoiled by a bovine tone. David Lloyd's tenor was magnificent in the part of the Evangelist, and Adele Addison's soprano had an exquisitely pure tone...
...gave up his amateur bouts because his mother grieved so much over his cut and bruised features. He had done his first singing in his school chorus, but did not decide to become a singer until he was 18, when his school friend, Giuseppe di Stefano (now a Met tenor), urged him to enter a competition in Florence ("It's free . . . there are girls . . ."). Though he knew only two arias, Siepi won the competition. He made his debut in Rigoletto two months later in a provincial opera house. When La Scala reopened in 1946, Siepi sang in the opening...