Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caruso record and substituted one with his own name on it to get a part in an Air Force show. He can afford to be breezy now. After his first two movie roles (in That Midnight Kiss and The Toast of New Orleans'), Hollywood has cast Tenor Lanza as The Great Caruso, and Hollywood is inclined to feel that Caruso is doing well to get his name in the title. Meanwhile, so far as the new crop of U.S. bobby-soxers is concerned, Frank Sinatra might as well be a contemporary of Hans Sachs...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Alois Pernerstorfer, bass; Gertrude Grob-Prandl, soprano; Herbert Handt, tenor; Hilde Konetzni, soprano; Alfred Poell, bass; Hedda Heusser, soprano; Oskar von Czerwenka, bass; Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna...
Haydn: The Seasons (Trude Eipper-le, soprano; Julius Patzak, tenor; Georg Hann, bass; the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss conducting; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). Haydn's last oratorio, given a dramatic performance. Recording: good...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...