Word: tibbetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Ivan Khovansky, whose part Met Veteran Lawrence Tibbett acted better than he sang, took his music as well as his politics from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...
Complete with spear-carriers and prima donnas, grand opera was launching a mass assault on television. ABC started it with ponderous telecasts from the Metropolitan of Otello and Der Rosenkavalier. Last week, in the first of a series, CBS and Artistic Director Lawrence Tibbett proved that opera could be sprightly as well as tuneful, in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen on the Opera Television Theater...
...Tibbett feels that abbreviated, swift-paced TV operas will not do any serious damage to the venerable and tradition-encrusted body of grand opera. "To my way of thinking, we're evolutionists, not revolutionists," he explains. "We don't want to alienate what I would call good conservative opinion." The major purpose of TV opera, as Tibbett sees it: "To keep opera's present public, and develop...