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...could resist the combination? Certainly not Maria Meneghini Callas, 40, or maybe it was Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolf Bing, 62, who proved only human after all. At any rate, the two kissed and made up in Paris in June, and La Divina will return to the Met for Tosca next year, her first New York appearance since Bing fired her for breaking an engagement...
Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
Though he is only 36, Crandall wears a sapient beard and looks like a keg with hair. When he opens his mouth, one expects to hear Tosca in native Italian. But Crandall was born in Kansas, went to Millsaps College in Mississippi, one of the better small colleges in the South. He worked as an announcer on half a dozen radio stations before going into the now-widespread talk-to-the-listeners game on CKEY in Toronto four years...
Singing a laryngeal ragout, Franchi booms out Shenandoah, Arrivederci Roma, an aria from Tosca, a flamenco number, even Chicago in Italian. He is a tall, thin fellow who begins stiffly but soon has his tie and jacket off and his shirt unbuttoned. His big tenor has baritone depth. It lacks the bel canto sweetness of high operatic stature, but it has a lot of impressive thunder. "Most people have never been in an opera house," says Sergio's musical director...
...Puccini: Tosca (RCA Victor). With Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei, Conductor Herbert von Karajan has the finest Tosca cast that can be assembled today. Price surpasses Callas as the reigning Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia...