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Operatic Duets (Jan Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
...Verdi: La Traviata (Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Opera House, Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza conducting; Columbia, 30 sides, two albums). Apparently Columbia intends to catch the impatient, who don't want to wait for Toscanini's promised recording of Traviata. The recording is uneven, and Rome's postwar opera company is not all it should be. Performance: fair...
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 and Verdi and Wagner and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menotti, has written operas for chamber orchestra and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lucretia," is on a Chicago stage now. If it comes to New York next year and is as much of a success as "The Medium" (still going strong on ticket...
Opera Album: Mozart operatic arias,by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Ezio Pinza (Columbia). Best single record: Verdi's Dite alia giovine (from La Traviata), by the Met's Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill (Victor...