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...three years running-1962, 1963, 1964-the tall, shapely mezzo sang powerful Carmens in Spoleto, Moscow and at the New York City Opera. But it was the Met that Verrett was aiming for. She declined Rudolf Bing's offer to sing several minor Wagner and Verdi roles. At length, Bing came through with the role she craved...
This summer the U.S. will fairly explode with the sound of music-from jazz to Bach fugues and Verdi operas There will be no fewer than four major new festivals, and the old favorites will brim with solid programs and topnotch artists...
Cornell is 2-3 in the EIBL this year, with victories over Columbia and Princeton (both Harvard victims too). The Big Red has three men batting over .300--first baseman Lou Verdi (.348), center fielder Chris Ritter (.329) and catcher Ed Cott (.304). If their ace, Roy Walter--6-2 on the year--faces Peters, it will be a good matchup...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Opera: Two to Six" starts with a Tosca duet by Joan Sutherland and Tito Gobbi, grows into the trio from Faust, the Verdi quartet from Rigolctlo, a Wagner quintet from Die Meistersinger, and finally the sextet from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammcrmoor, in which the two are joined by Nicolai Gedda, Jerome Mines, Mildred Miller and Charles Anthony...
...that there's much any conductor can do with Carmen, Bizet. for some perverse reason presumably connected with his nationality, insisted on writing French opera at a time when Wagner and Verdi had conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet...