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...vocally, opera is in the midst of a new golden age. Soprano Leontyne Price, in Aïda, sang the famous O patria mia with such velvety beauty, such abundance of power, that she overshadowed most other recent Aïdas. Later in the same week, Birgit Nilsson sang Turandot's climactic scene in a way that will be remembered for years as the fulfillment of the opera's own description of its heroine: "Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within five days, in addition to Joan Sutherland's remarkable New York debut...
Incapable of Ugliness. The Met's revival of Turandot, its first in 31 years, made up for much in the way of dull productions earlier in the season. Turandot (last syllable pronounced dot) remains the one Puccini work that appeals almost as much to the mind as to the heart. Writing for three years, under the shadow of death,* the composer was determined to move away from what he had come to regard as his earlier "slight" music. "Create for me something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi...
...caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were many friends and neighbors from Mississippi, who remember Leontyne as the little girl who used to play the piano at local funerals. Among the Mississippi visitors: the Chisholms of Laurel, for whom Leontyne's aunt worked...
...flowing from the record mints to fill the stereo gap-by no means all of them living up to the promise of true "separation of sound." While the vogue has produced some first-rate performances, (London's Girl of the Golden West, RCA Victor's brilliant new Turandot, Columbia's Concerto for Orchestra by Bartok) too often the stereo disks appeal not to music lovers but to sound addicts, craving to be enveloped by that "wraparound" effect...
Died. Jussi Bjoerling, 49, renowned tenor, a Metropolitan Opera fixture since 1938, who, from his 1929 operatic debut in his native Sweden to his recent re cording of Turandot, displayed a continually improving, distinctive and beautiful voice; of a heart attack; in Siar, Sweden. The heart seizure was at least his fourth since 1959, including one in March at London's Covent Garden while singing Rodolfo in La Boheme. With the Queen Mother in the audience, Bjoerling insisted on completing the performance after only a 30-minute break...