Word: verdis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program notes are written by recognized authorities, e.g., Verdi Biographer Francis Toye...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, with Peerce, Merrill, Anderson, Peters...
...Solar Plexus. Soprano Callas had just sung Leonora in Verdi's // Trovatore and once more affirmed her position as the world's most exciting opera singer. With the exception of one high note in her last big aria that degenerated into a sickly wobble, the whole performance gave off an incomparable glow. Perhaps the glow was brighter than ever, for Soprano Callas had just signed a contract as leading soprano next fall with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Il Trovatore's first notes, when she stood in slender profile in her crimson robe and sang...
...melodiously as possible, use his ex-choirboy's knowledge of the voice to make things easy for the singers ("They've had a rather poor time of it for the last 30 years"). He also decided to swallow any fears he might have about sounding like Verdi or Puccini. Last week, ten months after the London première, the New York City Opera staged its version of Troilus and Cressida. It was a direct...
...Proprio, cited "sanctity and goodness of form" as necessary to sacred music. Among the forbidden titles, many of which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni's, based on the Cavalria Rusticana intermezzo; and Bach-Gounod's (the Bach original was a clavier prelude, later adapted by Gounod as a love song). Also banned: Oh, Promise Me, from De Koven's operetta Robin Hood; Because ("secular...