Word: thebom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...first U.S.-born Metropolitan Opera prima donna ever to sing in the U.S.S.R., Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, came home with some wide-eyed observations about Soviet singers, recollections of a visit to a Kremlin museum, laurels from Moscow critics and audiences for wowing them with their sexiest Carmen ever. "We could learn from Russian musicians about colleague behavior," said Blanche without blanching visibly. "Tantrums and jealousy don't seem to exist in musical circles, and the tenors were so wonderfully flattering that they all forgot their lines in the love scenes...
...give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources. Sir John Gielgud got his first crack at opera direction. Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom (with all six feet of her hair unwound) was cast in the ear-rending role of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and Conductor Rafael Kubelik presided over a 150-man orchestra and an assortment of behind-the-scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes. On a lofty bridge...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Aïda, with Stella, Thebom, Baum, London...
...three gave occasionally fine performances, but no one of them dominated the stage in the spacious manner of a Kirsten Flagstad, a Helen Traubel or a Lauritz Melchior. The most consistently good performances, both vocally and dramatically, were supplied in the supporting roles-Norman Kelley as Mime, Blanche Thebom as Fricka and Waltraute, Jean Madeira as Erda. What really held audiences, however, was the Wagnerian power of the Met's orchestra, conducted once by Dimitri Mitropoulos (Walküre) and the rest of the time by the Met's Wagner veteran, Fritz Stiedry...