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...Verdi got $20,000 from the Khedive of Egypt for Aïda, which was written for the opening of the Suez Canal. A Stalin Prize, first class, also pays about...
...Giuseppe Verdi, a formidable old man in his 70s, looked sternly down on the four cellists. In rehearsal for the first performance of his new opera, Otello, the La Scala orchestra had just reached the important cello passage in the first act. The second cellist, a 19-year-old boy, could barely be heard. The composer demanded to know his name. "Toscanini," he was told. Toscanini had played the passage exactly as it was marked-pppp. Patiently, Verdi explained that the fault was his own: he really intended only pianissimo, and had exaggerated his directions to make sure that they...
Even the Met didn't seem to know what it had in Cloe when she made her appearance as the gypsy in Verdi's Il Trovatore. She had come to the U.S. from Italy with a little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani Overture, Samuel Barber's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Guest: Cellist Raya Garbousova. Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos...
Perhaps, therefore, the future of modern opera lies on the stage and not in the old opera houses, which will still supply the voices and the size and the glamour for Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menetti, has written operas for chamber orchestras and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lueretia," was on the Chicago stage last season. If it lands in a Broadway theatre with success equal to that of "The Medium" it will prove that Meuotti's work is more...