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Before 1954, there were very few U.S. musical visitors. But since ANTA (American National Theater and Academy) started an international exchange program (TIME, June 6), several top U.S. artists, e.g., the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, have made the trip. Last week Organist E. Power Biggs was exceptionally well received, and a septet of first chair men from the Boston Symphony arrived for joint concerts and some on its own. Next month another group of Russian artists will arrive, but next fall Icelanders expect to hear U.S. Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Pianist Julius...
...which can lay its hands on an astonishing number of top-drawer singers when it has a mind to, filled the cast with stars: Hilde Gueden and Eleanor Steber as the pretty sisters, Blanche Thebom as their mother, Brian Sullivan and George London as the suitors. Ralph Herbert (in a creditable Met debut) was the father, and Coloratura Roberta Peters was an impudent little flirt. Newcomer Rudolf Kempe fanned the Met orchestra to a fine performance, but the playing was so loud that it recalled the time when Strauss himself shouted from the back of a rehearsal hall: "Louder! Louder...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Salome, with Thebom, Vinay, Sullivan...
...First a Marlon Brando kind of man named Mario del Monaco came out and sang very loud and very high. He was luckier than the other operatic heroes and seemed to have two women after him, one being the daughter of the king of Egypt. Her name was Blanche Thebom, and she was a looker. The other was not so young, but she certainly could sing. Her name was Zinka Milanov. The young man liked it best in the third scene, where the Egyptians staged a big show with dancing girls. From where he sat, they looked mighty cute...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Norma, with Milanov, Thebom' Penno, Siepi...