Word: traviatas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunrise. Produced last week, it was the most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...Bing says, all a matter of economics. "I am behind the times-so is the American public. And they are the people who buy the tickets; the critics get in free. To make successful opera in New York you do Carmen, Boheme and Traviata, and then Traviata, Boheme and Carmen, Stage a modern work and during the third performance you could put on a blindfold, spray the house with a machine gun and be pretty sure that you would never hit anybody...
...flame's the same next season when Fontanne plays the dowager empress in NBC's Hallmark production of Anastasia. Alfred will not be left home to tend the petunias. He is scheduled to direct the Metropolitan Opera's new version of La Traviata at the same time. And as his wife says, "When Alfred is working with the Met, I'm really sort of squeezed out. I'm delighted to be, but it really can be rather boring. So the show will be my angel of deliverance...
Divorced. By Mary Costa, 36, blonde and beautiful lyric soprano, who left a $150,000-a-year job as TV's Chrysler Girl for an opera career, making her widely acclaimed 1964 Metropolitan debut as Violetta in La Traviata: Frank Tashlin, 53, Hollywood writer-director of slapstick comedies (The Man from the Diners' Club); on grounds of cruelty; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Metropolitan Opera Auditions, made his Met debut in Cosi Fan Tutte as a last-minute substitute for an ailing tenor, and was promptly acclaimed the find of the season. In the years since, he has sung leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata, next season will portray Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. "Fifteen years ago," says Shirley, "I probably wouldn't have been accepted by the Met. Ten years ago, I couldn't sing my favorite roles. Times are changing...