Word: traviatas
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...Windsor Castle with the royal family. In London she shook 300 hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully took off their hats...
...files, but Toscanini was not likely to let such a version-with studio coughs and occasional minor imperfections of playing-be released to the public. Toscanini, who is now 80, had agreed to record full-length operas for RCA Victor, but had still to make the first one, La Traviata. And with the Petrillo recording ban only ten days away, it was likely to be some time before he got around...
Verdi: La Traviata (Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Opera House, Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza conducting; Columbia, 30 sides, two albums). Apparently Columbia intends to catch the impatient, who don't want to wait for Toscanini's promised recording of Traviata. The recording is uneven, and Rome's postwar opera company is not all it should be. Performance: fair...
...sung for the Paris Opéra's younger and less gaudy sister, the Opéra-Comique. It was a performance to deter anyone with a less unrelenting ambition. In the heat and humidity, the Opéra-Comique's production of La Traviata was so languid that it threatened to expire with each bar. The tenor bleated woefully and the rest of the cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost in the sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian...
Opera Album: Mozart operatic arias,by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Ezio Pinza (Columbia). Best single record: Verdi's Dite alia giovine (from La Traviata), by the Met's Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill (Victor...