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...with plans to exchange its elegant but drafty old home for a modern theater at Manhattan's projected Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera is busy with another building program. Aside from the great names on its roster-Maria Callas. Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Tucker, Mario Del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi-it is adding to its solid second rank by bringing in exciting newcomers who, more than the established stars, are making this a memorable season. Some of the best of the new voices...
...bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
...second act, the character known as Lenski sings one of the most meltingly popular tenor arias in Russian opera ("Oh where have flown my days of springtime?"), turns to face Onegin in a duel and is promptly shot dead. At the Met last week, Tenor Richard Tucker, as Lenski, was at the top of his luminous form; Baritone George London, etched against a handsomely stark stage set, was magnificently arrogant as Onegin. The only trouble was that his pistol failed to fire, and Tucker was well on his way down by the time an offstage gun went...
...superhuman effort, had reversed the balance, the whole country was literally sick of autocracy. There were murmurs of dissent, attempts to guide Stalin along other paths. But the mysterious demise of a number of high Politburo-crats halted any defiance from on high. The result was, says Robert C. Tucker, who spent 5½years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow as an attache, an "inward migration'' of the Russian people. Boredom, cynicism, and mediocrity-what the NKVD called "formalism"-characterized almost all cultural and political life...
THEODORE L. TUCKER Africa Committee National Council of Churches New York City