Word: traviatas
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...Mythology. By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig -mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata-even worms that do the cootch...
After a successful series of performances in Germany, Boulevard Solitude was chosen as a showpiece for Rome's two-week International Conference on Contemporary Music. Familiar as they were with operatic plots featuring faithless love (Pagliacci), harlotry (Traviata), rape (Don Giovanni), incest (Die Walküre), bastardy (Norma), Gomorrahism (The Rake's Progress) and murder (Tosca, etc.), Rome's select first-night audience balked at Boulevard Solitude...
...fiasco" of The Rake's Progress in its second season at the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Feb. 8] underlines a circumstance that has long been obvious: Met audiences are not responsive to novelty, good or bad . . . The audiences, for the most part, prefer to listen to Carmen or Traviata for the hundred-and-umpteenth time. Or do they actually listen, even to their favorites? Isn't it rather a matter of going to the opera house to be pleasurably stroked, as it were, by a succession of familiar sounds...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Traviata, with Albanese, Tucker, Warren...
Roberta Peters of the Mctropolitan Opera plays Elsa Valdine and sings the duet from Madame Butterfly with the voice of Jan Peerce, superimposed on Byron Palmer. Her rendition of Sempre Liber from Verdi's La Traviata is as sensitive as it is perfect. Violinist Isaac Stern is Eugene Ysaye, who gave Hurok his first big break...