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...point in La Bohème, Rodolfo, the tenor lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been privately amusing himself by writing doggerel. Last week Tucker gave out some samples...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's La Bohème, with Albanese, Di Stefano, Gueden, Siepi...
...what about his habit of squeaking rubber balls in your ear when you were dying in the last act of Boh...
Maid for 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...
...enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...