Word: traviatas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La, Traviata, with Albanese and Tagliavini...
Rudi Bing himself had some matters that would bear sleeping on. He had done a bang-up job on his two new productions of Don Carlo and The Flying Dutchman (TIME, Nov. 20). But after a sleepwalking Don Giovanni (and a ragged Traviata two weeks ago), it was clear that some of the Met's old productions needed tuning...
Music on the more serious side includes simultaneous rival presentations of Verdi's La Traviata, by the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera Company (City Center, 131 West 55th) tomorrow night. The latter group puts on Aida at 8:15 tonight, Carmen Sunday afternoon, and La Boheme Sunday night...
...Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...