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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Verdi's La Traviata (first half). Soloists: Soprano Licia Albanese, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Robert Merrill. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Anne McNight, protégée of Arturo Toscanini, and Baritone Todd Duncan sing duets from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...third of its funds from radio fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Unseen Audience | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Pert Judy Garland (Mrs. Vincente Minnelli) burlesquing a world-weary but oh-so-cordial movie queen in a dance-and-doggerel brush with the press. ¶ Tenor James Melton and Soprano Marion Bell warbling their way through the wine-cup scene from Verdi's La Traviata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 25, 1946 | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...while Baritone Duncan quietly practiced six operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Porgy to Pagliacci | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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