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...conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus...
FRENCH ART SONGS (RCA Victor). Like the symbolist poets whose verses he sings, Tenor Cesare Valletti evokes sensuous, delicately colored scenes in narrow frames. There are Verlaine's Clair de Lune set to music by three composers (Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Joseph Szulc), Verlaine's C'est I'Extase by Debussy, and Baudelaire's L'lnvitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc...
...into Donizetti's over flowing old trunk of 70-odd operas and comes up with a 3-LP recording of Linda di Chamounix (mono). Written late in the composer's life, the work has a good deal of facile melody, and Antonietta Stella, Renato Capecchi and Cesare Valletti give it a rousing performance. But the libretto, which has to do with a girl driven mad when wrongly accused of being a wanton, is enough to shake anybody but the staunchest Donizetti...
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
Such fighting words propelled Bing into the kind of operatic hassle usually reserved for prima donnas. San Francisco's Vienna-born Kurt Herbert Adler tore into Vienna-born Rudi Bing, pointed out that the San Francisco company has welcomed such artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton...