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...nine curtain calls, echoing the success she has found all over Europe in the four years since she emerged from La Scala's ballet school. The daily Avanti found that Carla "has now fully arrived as a prima ballerina," and one critic noting that she is related to Verdi, observed: "No wonder she's so good; she drinks her morning espresso out of a cup that once was Verdi's." Few present would dispute the recent judgment of the London Daily Mail: "She will be one of the greatest ballerinas of our time...
...Kalamazoo-born Thomas Schippers, 29. At the season's first Forza del Destino last week, Schippers showed what he could do with an orchestra that only the week before, at the opening of Fidelia (TIME, Feb. 8), had sounded ragged and disorganized. "Tommy" Schippers had never conducted Verdi's Forza before, but he led orchestra and singers (Soprano Leonie Rysanek, Tenor Richard Tucker, both in top form) with a muscular authority that injected grand drama into every twist and turn of the tortuous plot. For Schippers, the essence of a good performance is spontaneity, and to achieve...
Settling Down. Next year Schippers will open the Met season with a new production of Verdi's early opera Nabucco. On his schedule for spring and summer: recording his first album for Columbia and running Italy's international Spoleto Festival. In perhaps three years' time he admits that he would like to settle down with an orchestra of his own, and he knows just the kind he wants: "One-third Italian musicians for their line, one-third Jewish for their sound, a sprinkling of Germans for solidity." But, adds Schippers, he must live in a city "that...
...good farmer") and singing in the local Lutheran church choir. Then a neighboring choirmaster started giving her vocal lessons, persuaded her to enter the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Delayed by the war, she made her first real splash in 1947 with the Stockholm Opera singing Verdi's Lady Macbeth. Gradually she developed a repertory that now includes all the Wagnerian soprano parts, many of the great roles of Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss, plus an assortment of contemporary roles. Two and a half years ago (TIME, June 3, 1957), her Isolde at Florence's Maggio Musicale...
...three years Soprano Moffo has been riding high on the European opera and concert circuit. To U.S. opera buffs, she is known as the star of several fine recordings, including Madame Butterfly (RCA Victor) and Capriccio (Angel). As Verdi's consumptive heroine, she demonstrated last week that her acting is almost as good as her voice. Strikingly handsome in a hoopskirted, bare-shouldered, pink ball gown, she made the Violetta of Act I into a moving figure of feverishly hectic gaiety. As the opera progressed, the coquettish attitudes gave way gradually, until by the final act Violetta emerged...