Word: toscas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Vera Franceschi, 27, petite (about 5 ft.) San Francisco-born concert pianist; and Daniele Barioni, 27, Italian tenor who made his Metropolitan Opera debut last year in Tosca on a few hours' notice; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...
...Naples, HMV-Angel has moved into Milan's La Scala and London-Decca into Florence's Teatro Co-munale. One of the busiest of all this year is Rome's cavernous Teatro dell'Opera, where RCA Victor is at work on new versions of Butterfly, Tosca, Orfeo and Lucia...
...Tosca and Butterfly (both conducted by Erich Leinsdorf) were recorded on alternate days, and between them they required more than 40 hours of taped singing. Inside the opera house, the red plush boxes were empty, dust covers lined the balustrades. A 62-piece orchestra was spread over the stripped main floor, and a 30-voice chorus was onstage. The principals stood at the music stand in bright cotton prints or sports shirts and slacks. In the control foyer Music Director Richard Mohr and the technicians hunched over the controls...
...always, the audience loved Tosca -undoubtedly more for Puccini's score than for the cold-war innovations. At any rate, Modernizer Gutman missed one trick recently used at a similar Tosca adaptation in Argentina. There, after killing Scarpia, Tosca, in expert thriller fashion, cut the telephone wires...