Word: traviatas
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...very successful film versions of operas which have been sent over here recently from Italy--"Before Him All Rome Trembled" (La Tosea) and "The Lost One" (La Traviata)--have made some concessions to the customs of moviegoers. Each had talented and handsome actors, opera-type histrionics were minimized, the scenery was clean and smoothly pressed, and--most of all--the plot was made as plausible as a reasonable person should expect. In short, the producers were making a movie, not filming an opera...
...last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet's fast-moving tragedy, it seemed to move swiftly without being rushed. By last week Perlea had cemented his reputation as an operatic triple threat by conducting a superbly lyric Traviata...
...nights last week they gathered in the Cincinnati Zoo. There, in an open pavilion, they sat mopping and fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...
...Furtwangler's memory was musty: A'ida was a hit from the first, Carmen and La Boheme only middling flops compared with La Traviata and The Barber of Seville, which were at first all but hooted off the stage...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Traviata, with Bidu Sayao and Robert Merrill...