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Johann Strauss: One Night in Venice (Vienna State Opera soloists, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and chorus of the Bregenz Festivals; Columbia, 4 sides LP). This charming romance of disguise and intrigue is the ninth of the Waltz King's operettas; it sparkles with some of the same gaiety as the other eight. Performance and recording: excellent...
...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...
...Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves "to play...
...welter of pop music last week, a song called It's All in the Game was beginning to get attention. The credit line on its record label read simply "Sigman-Dawes." Lyricist Carl Sigman's sentimental lines were the standard drippy stuff, but the lilting waltz tune had an unusually fresh, clean sound. Its composer: the late Charles G. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes, Chicago banker, amateur musician, and Vice President of the U.S. in the Coolidge Administration...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one afternoon last week, sparkling young Soprano Patrice Munsel warbled those waltz-time lines as if they had been written for her. When the curtain closed on the act, operagoers gave her an ovation. Backstage in her dressing room, Patrice Munsel grinned happily. Said she: "I love an audience...