Word: traviatas
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...curvaceous blonde named Dorothy Kirsten. When she had appeared in a revival of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
...number of operatic voices really worth recording dwindled to a handful. One great voice that lasted long enough to be well recorded was Soprano Claudia Muzio's. Probably no living soprano (she died in 1936) approaches the vocal assurance and dramatic power recorded here in arias from Norma, Traviata, Forza del Destino, etc. Recording: good...
...greatest producer of second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...
...colorful shrewdness of Impresario Fortune Gallo. Unlike top-flight opera companies, Gallo's San Carlo keeps away from operas which are artistic monuments but financial hazards. For its 20,000-mile tour this season, 13 operas were enough. Seven of them (Aïda, Carmen, Faust, Trovatore, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme) are such longtime favorites that Gallo's troupe has given them more than 1,000 times apiece...
...opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...