Word: traviatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights last week they gathered in the Cincinnati Zoo. There, in an open pavilion, they sat mopping and fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...
...Furtwangler's memory was musty: A'ida was a hit from the first, Carmen and La Boheme only middling flops compared with La Traviata and The Barber of Seville, which were at first all but hooted off the stage...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Traviata, with Bidu Sayao and Robert Merrill...
...Windsor Castle with the royal family. In London she shook 300 hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully took off their hats...
...files, but Toscanini was not likely to let such a version-with studio coughs and occasional minor imperfections of playing-be released to the public. Toscanini, who is now 80, had agreed to record full-length operas for RCA Victor, but had still to make the first one, La Traviata. And with the Petrillo recording ban only ten days away, it was likely to be some time before he got around...