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Acts II and III of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Nelli, Peerce, Merrill, Turner...
Though the Met has no illusions that Debussy will pull the crowds that Verdi, Puccini-and Wagner-do. it is proudly scheduling five more performances this season. It will also broadcast Pelleas nationally...
Television Opera Theater (Sat. 4:30 p.m., NBC). Verdi's Macbeth...
...judgment of doting listeners, Arturo Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Verdi's Otello may well have been the finest performance ever heard on the air. Soloists Herva Nelli, Ramon Vinay and Giuseppe Valdengo sang as if they were in a state of musical exaltation, and the NBC Symphony's orchestral commentary was both dramatic and tender. Recently, after long refusing, Toscanini agreed to let RCA Victor make records from the monitoring transcription, and last week the three LPs were released. It is probably the Maestro's masterpiece...
...songs, since he died at 31; it includes Beethoven's Eroica, but not his Ninth). Chamber music and grand opera written between 35 and 39 have achieved the greatest fame. Wagner wrote Tannhäuser and Lohengrin in his 30s, and by 40 was working on The Ring. Verdi was a clear exception. He churned out 25 operas by the time he was 58, then went into semiretirement. Meanwhile, Wagner's fame soared. At 74 Verdi began again, and in six years wrote Falstaff and Otello, considered by many his masterpieces...