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Scrap Tristan and put on Tosca. At the Met-which has fielded three Tristans for an act apiece rather than switch operas for a single performance-it was a disastrous suggestion. Schuyler Chapin, Gentele's successor as manager, rejected the idea, hired a minor singer named Klara Barlow to sing Isolde, and pulled together cast and production...
...permanently retired after all. Maria Callas, the volcanic soprano whose last role was Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1965, explained that she had "developed some bad vocal habits. So I retired to start again." Now a worldwide Callas tour that would begin in the fall was being announced. For some time she has been moving back into music. Her voice has lost its reach, no doubt, but she still has a grasp of dramatic music to hold any audience in thrall. Callas will be heard only in concert, so the fascinated public will be spared those...
HAYNES CIVIC AUDITORIUM. Metropolitan Opera of New York. Carmen, Tosca, and II Trovatore presented April 23, 23, 25, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $17.50-$3.50; call...
...dozen shows, including at least three exciting and lavish new productions. That way it has an annual deficit of $1 million. This 50th-anniversary year will be different. In addition to two complete presentations of his two-year-old "Ring" cycle, he will offer a completely new Tosca and a new L'Africaine, as well as the American première of the Von Einem/Dürrenmatt The Visit of the Old Lady...
...TOSCA E. KRAUSSE