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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, with Amara Hur ley, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...
Offenbach's La Périchole, with Patrice Munsel, Theodor Uppman, Cyril Ritchard...
...hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, conducted by Bruno Walter, with Amara, Peters, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...
...second disappointment was the all-American cast. For once, the Met stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while...