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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Rigoletto, with Swedish Soprano Hjoerdis Schymberg, Baritone Leonard Warren, Tenor Jan Peerce...
Rodzinski played the piano in a cabaret to support his first wife and their small son. It was a big break when the local opera director let him conduct Verdi's Ernani: "The smell of the scenery, the makeup, the wigs . . . you can't get it out of your system. Ask any opera man." In 1924 Leopold Stokowski, visiting Warsaw, met Rodzinski, later hired him as assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. When Rodzinski reached the U.S., the first thing "Stokie" did was to run his fingers through Rodzinski's slick and parted hair, "to give...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Soprano Zinka Milanov, Contralto Margaret Harshaw, Tenor Kurt Baum, Baritone Leonard Warren...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Basso Ezio Pinza, in selections by Verdi, Paisiello, Sibella and Forsythe...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Verdi's La Traviata, with Soprano Licia Albanese, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Leonard Warren...