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...famed conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Victor de Sabata (for whom she named her doll)-all before she could read a note of music. When she was seven, Gianella decided she wanted to conduct opera, buckled down for ten months of study. She made her debut with Traviata, in Ravenna, and now knows 18 operas...
Louisville's station WAVE-TV is now proving that there is also a large grassroots audience ready and waiting for TV opera. In cooperation with the University of Louisville School of Music, WAVE-TV is telecasting 30-minute condensations of such favorites as La Bohême, Traviata and Hansel and Gretel. All of the operas are sung in English; the casts are made up of local housewives, radio performers and music students. The station supplies free scenery, costumes and technicians, while Director Moritz Bomhard and his staff come from the university. Says Bomhard: "The cost...
Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, 29-year-old Brooklyn-born U.S. citizen and currently undisputed prima donna of Italian opera, signed a contract last month to make her U.S. debut in La Traviata at the Metropolitan. Last week she canceled the contract. Reason: a clause which provided that her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an industrialist, would make the trip with her. The clause could not be fulfilled, despite the efforts of Met-Manager Rudolf Bing. The U.S. Consulate in Venice refused to give Giovanni a visa on the grounds that he could not prove intention to return to Italy...
Stravinsky's orchestration was the best thing in the production: it probably established a record for different ways of sounding a common chord, and it was as full of his halting, polka-like rhythms as Traviata is of waltzes. But after 3½ hours the audience had had more than enough: most of it had left before the last bows were taken...
...Oscar Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values of the music must be half destroyed...