Word: toscas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four alltime opera masters, alongside Verdi, Wagner and Mozart. Though some critics dismiss him as sugary and sentimental, no opera house can hope to stay in business long without including in its repertory the three major monuments to Puccini's career-La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly. Puccini himself once made a list of the houses where his operas were playing; Tosca alone was then being given in 73 cities. His works steadily draw both dedicated opera buffs and occasional fans who might not recognize another note of opera but cherish every note Puccini wrote. Last week, with...
...Louis Biancolli, confessed that the last act had reduced him to tears. Such weeping not withstanding, it was not the greatest Otello in Met history. Nor did it have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who scored a triumph the following night as the most convincing and moving Tosca of her time). Otello was merely excellent-and significant precisely because it was the kind of topnotch production that Rudolf Bing's Met can mount any night of the week it has a mind...
...exciting Traviata in years, and demonstrated again that she has lost none of the turbulent appeal that can magnetize an audience at the flick of an arm or a twist of the head. Diva Callas' next Met roles: Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Tosca...
Almost everybody in Baja California shares the boom's excitement. Said prosperous Mexicali Air-conditioning Executive Manuel Garcia Prieto: "My wife and I just took a long-delayed vacation in New York. We saw My Fair Lady and Long Day's Journey into Night and Tosca. We'd planned to stay two weeks, but at the end of the first week I suddenly felt strange. I told my wife: You'll think I'm crazy, but I want to go back to Mexicali. It's hot in the summer and dusty in the winter...
...TOSCA (Puccini): Maria Meneghini Callas, La Scala...