Word: tenors
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Even though the handsome tenor wins the princess' hand in the end, Turandot hardly offers much opportunity for dramatic movement on the stage. In the City Center production, Stage Director Vladimir Rosing and Designer H. A. Condell had succeeded in getting up some colorful pageantry; three Gilbert & Sullivan types named Ping, Pang anu Pong, the emperor's ministers, did their best to give the opera some comic relief; and Soprano Martinis sang her stony and stolid role with a voice that was as strong, hard and cold as a wire cable. The chill was hardly her fault: singing...
...singing teacher at Stockholm's Royal Opera School had little fault to find with the little tenor's singing; what annoyed her was the tenor's persistent wooing of her pet pupil, pretty, blonde Soprano Anna-Lisa Berg. Marriage, she told them sternly, would be the end of Anna-Lisa's promising operatic career. She was right. Young, golden-voiced Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Anna-Lisa were married. And while Jussi sang his way to the Metropolitan and world fame, Anna-Lisa set-to work to raise their family, instead of her voice...
...peak of his career at 39, jolly-jowled Tenor Bjoerling (pronounced Bee-yorling) was one of the first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured...
...even what it once was. For another thing, the technicolor, which is supposed to evoke the fairy tale atmosphere of faraway Japan, only makes the picture look like a collection of colored postcards. And Kenny Baker plays Nanki-Poo, the wandering minstrell, as if he were an Irish Tenor. Apparently some one forgot to tell him that he was not singing for Jack Benny...
Verdi: Excerpts from Falstaff (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Afro Poli, baritone; Vittoria Palombini, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Luciano Donaggio, bass; La Scala Orchestra, Alberto Erede conducting; Capitol-Telefunken; 6 sides). Baritone Stabile, now 61, was the best Falstaff in the business when these recordings were originally made before World War II. Capitol's repressing job is good...