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Died. Jussi Bjoerling, 49, renowned tenor, a Metropolitan Opera fixture since 1938, who, from his 1929 operatic debut in his native Sweden to his recent re cording of Turandot, displayed a continually improving, distinctive and beautiful voice; of a heart attack; in Siar, Sweden. The heart seizure was at least his fourth since 1959, including one in March at London's Covent Garden while singing Rodolfo in La Boheme. With the Queen Mother in the audience, Bjoerling insisted on completing the performance after only a 30-minute break...
...Buenos Aires on his first Latino concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Richard Tucker was booked for six performances. To his horror he soon developed a sore throat and then, far worse, lost his voice entirely. To round out the nightmare, Argentine doctors at first could not detect what ailed him. After two days of near-mute anxiety. Tucker was ready to pack and go home. At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx...
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, performed by the Summer School Chorus and Orchestra with soprano Jean Lunn, control to Betty Lou Austin, tenor Frank Modica, and bass Irving Pearson, will conclude the program...
...Paris is a strident but adequate tenor named William Tabbert, who is built on the short stubby pattern traditional for tenors, but a little bit odd for one of history's most famous seducers. He acts in a manner for which a really first-rate tenor could be forgiven. Morley Meredith, who has some reputation as a concert baritone, sings the priest Calchas sumptuously, giving some idea of how Offenbach's music can sound given the voices it deserves...
...time to learn major ones. A large (6 ft. 1 in., 200 Ibs.), imposing man, Tibbett had a big, bronzelike, dramatically eloquent voice that combined ringing power with remarkable agility, which he liked to demonstrate for friends by singing through entire operas, assuming not only the baritone but the tenor parts as well. Moreover, Tibbett was one of the few opera stars whose acting ability matched his voice; trained in stock (as a young man he toured with Tyrone Power Sr. in Shakespeare) and later in Hollywood, he brought an entirely new quality of professionalism to the opera stage, creating...