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Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). The third act of Puccini's La Bohème, in English. Thomas Scherman conducting...
Most of the oldtimers in the audience had sung with De Luca during the 20 years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press...
...easily the best performance of La Bohème the U.S. has heard since Toscanini last conducted it at the Met in 1910. After it was over, Toscanini waved hastily to the shouting audience and scurried off, leaving the applause for the singers and his late friend, Puccini...
...From Murger's novel Scenes de la Vie de Boh...