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...also mentioned the fact that four of my main roles in opera-Mimi, Tosca, Manon and Louise-have certainly been sung better by other people. Do you mean Melba as Mimi, Muzio as Tosca, Sibyl Sanderson as Manon, and Mary Garden as Louise? Some of those people never sang at the Metropolitan, but they did create the golden memories of the past...
Grace Moore ultimately became the U.S. moviegoer's idea of a great opera star. Music critics have always deplored her dramatic extravagances and lack of vocal subtlety. Of the four roles for which she is known (Mimi, Tosca, Manon, Louise), all have been sung better by others. Her finest performance is her ebullient interpretation of Gustave Charpentier's Louise, in which she was carefully coached by the composer...
When he was through he produced a Tosca, a Martha and a Carmen that set a new standard of quality in the popular-priced operatic field. Critics rated Tosca (with Soprano Dusolina Giannini and Baritone George Czaplicki) a notch higher than the Metropolitan's recent job (in which Soprano Grace Moore and Baritone Lawrence Tibbett substituted U.S. ham for Italian salami). The City Center's Carmen featured one of the best Carmens in a decade: dusky Jennie Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives...
Halasz's audiences talked through his overtures and drowned his finales with spontaneous applause. In the last act of Tosca the guns of the firing squad failed to go off, and the hero was obliged to drop dead in silence. In Carmen a soldier tried desperately to get his sabre into his scabbard the wrong...
...Opera House, unscathed though the Royal Palace next door had suffered three bomb hits, had scarcely missed a performance since the war started. Last week Neapolitans and United Nations troops jammed the house, at a $2 top, to hear such fine voices as that of Pina Esca, who sings Tosca as few divas since the palmy days of Mary Garden and Geraldine Farrar...