Word: traviatas
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...Carmen, Traviata-plus Kurt Weill's Street Scene and a new production of The Mikado. The very variety of the season, he thinks, is a tribute to an audience that cheerfully accepts City Center's small-scaled, tightly budgeted productions. "I don't have to do all the work for this audience," says he. "They don't want just to sit back and feel gorged...
...plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt like it. Then I was afraid to pull it back because I didn't know what my lines meant, so I just stood there with my hand stuck...
...soon became clear that she did not like the Met's Traviata production; moreover, Renata Tebaldi had been allowed to withdraw from it-so why not Callas? "Those lousy Traviatas he wanted to make me do!" said she. "Why give up a contract of 26 performances just for three lousy Traviatas...
...Pick on Me?" The main trouble, retorted Callas, was that Bing had signed her to sing two performances of Traviata, on Feb. 13 and 17, between two performances of Macbeth on Feb. 5 and 21. "Macbeth is a very heavy opera. I have to build back to my heavy voice, and it takes a month. My voice is not an elevator, going up and down...
...would gladly have substituted Tosca for Traviata, said Callas (Bing denied it), or sung three straight Macbeths: "But he offered me Lucia as a substitute which is even more ridiculous than Traviata. A few weeks ago it was reported to me that Mario Del Monaco had canceled Aida, and they gave him another opera. So why pick on me? Is it because I am an American? The others are all foreigners." Said Bing: Tebaldi had canceled Traviata only after she agreed to accept a substitute role, and Del Monaco's cancellation in Aida had been arranged in ample time...