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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Tosca, with Kirsten, Tagliavini, Schoeffler...
...roses all the way. One night, Manhattan saw Soprano Dorothy Kirsten's Tosca, which had brought the house down in San Francisco two seasons ago. It sent only a mild tremor through the Met's formidable masonry. "Singing Tosca," chirped the Daily News, "she made an excellent Mimi." But at week's end Baritone Robert Merrill got off to an impressive start in his first Rigoletto, and his divorced bride Soprano Roberta Peters, as Gilda, matched him with a Caro nome that stopped the show...
...Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values of the music must be half destroyed...
...desire to make art." For two weeks he coached the singers in Italian bel canto, worked with the orchestra, sweetening a pianissimo here, strengthening an accent there, whipping up a tempo to a swirling climax. Last week, on opening night, he lowered his baton on Puccini's Tosca...
...coincidence, the San Francisco Opera also rang up its season's curtain on Tosca last week. The singers were mostly from the Met, which does not open its own season until November. As Tosca, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten repeated her big hit of last year, and was, if anything, even better...