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...Selva got permission to use the Xavier Theater (attached to the Xavier High School), began by putting on concert programs, then added opera. Since then, the symphony has given 50 concerts, 35 operatic performances (Tosca, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme, Bleecker Street...
...Town Hall in the fall of 1954. The critics were enthusiastic, especially the Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison, who detected "a goddess performing among us." She has spent six seasons singing on the Community Concert circuit and in 1955 broke into opera as the lead in the NBC Tosca. Casting a Negro in the role, says Leontyne composedly, "created quite a rumpus, but it was a successful rumpus." At any rate, she feels that Bess was good preparation for Tosca: "Both were strumpets, only Tosca dressed better...
...Soprano Price, the Met was the climax of a career that began with the female lead in Porgy and Bess. A Juilliard alumna, she turned from musical comedy to grand opera in an NBC-TV production of Tosca, was soon making guest appearances with the San Francisco opera. But it was in Europe that her career really caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also...
Booming Voice. In a career that spanned more than a quarter-century, Tibbett ranged through more than 70 roles. He was never a leading Wagnerian, instead concentrated on the great baritone roles of the Italian repertory: lago in Otello, the elder Germont in Traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Amonasro in A'ida. For Tibbett the Met scheduled rarely performed operas such as Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and it was Tibbett, a longtime champion of English-language opera, who created the baritone roles in such contemporary American operas as Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman and Peter...
...made her grand opera debut in the NBC-TV production of Tosca ("I was the first black Tosca that big audience had seen"), later made her European grand opera debut in Aïda at the Vienna Staatsoper, guided by Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then Leontyne has had an uninterrupted string of European successes, particularly in Italy. After La Scala, Soprano Price has one more giant step ahead of her in the U.S.: next season she will sing yet another Verdian role-Leonora in Il Trovatore-in her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...