Word: valletti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). COST fan tutti, in English, with Steber, Thebom, Munsel, Valletti...
Rossini: L'ltaliana in Algeri (Giulletta Simionato, Cesare Valletti; La Scala Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini; Angel, 2 LPs). A gay, foolish romp through romantic North Africa, featuring a harem, a love-bored bey and a high-spirited Italian girl. Hardly an ounce of musical passion, but plenty of pretty coloratura parts and some elegant singing by the principals...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Massenet's Manon, with De Los Angeles, Valletti, Corena, Hines...
...fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have two other men on the hook, a nobleman named Cesare Valletti and the barber, sung by Robert Merrill. It was pretty confusing, especially when the soldiers came on, tramped back and forth and nobody seemed to be in charge, but everybody certainly could sing...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Barber of Seville, with Peters, Valletti, Merrill, Corena, Siepi...