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...Cincinnati's "Opera at the Zoo'' begins its 34th season this week with Puccini's Tosca, continues to give standard grand operas for the next five weeks. Most of the stars are from the Met and the New York City Opera...
...perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there, and seldom afterwards did it any other...
Against Holy Cross, Crimson Captain Ted Cooney lost to John Tosca, one down, in the first position. At number two, Brock Stokes was downed by Jack McDermott, 2 and 1, and the varsity's Bob Ornsteen fell to Phelan by the same score. The Crimson's Jim Jones in the four spot beat Dan Dailey, 3 to 2, and teammate Jim Bailey took Bob Cooney, Ted's brother, one up. Varsity number six man, Bruce Thurmond, was one down at the end of 18 to Gerwin, and the Crimson's seven man Roger Fleischman lost one down on the 20th...
...without special makeup. At first sight, her striking features looked rather exotic, although the TV screen virtually wiped out the color contrast between her and other singers. But as Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into...
...Bess and Tosca are not so very different, thinks Leontyne. "Things happened to Bess and she wasn't strong enough to control them. Tosca could control what happened to her better. Both were strumpets, only Tosca dressed better...