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Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
...great night for the old conductor, who had almost singlehanded built a crew of amateur parlor-fiddlers into a professional orchestra. Forty years earlier he had gone to work as a Caracas cigarmaker because "there wasn't enough music to make a living at it." Later, as a self-taught harmony teacher, then as director of Caracas' School of Music, he plugged for a place for the arts in the national life. The revolution of 1945 gave him his big break. Elected to the Constituent Assembly as a supporter of President Rómulo Betancourt's Acci...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E Flat Major; Griffes' The White Peacock; Siegmeister's Symphony. Guest: British Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Last week, Conductor Halasz, a slightly grey 42, faced his toughest test: Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni. He had once helped Bruno Walter produce it in Salzburg, and had put it on himself in St. Louis. "Always before it is considered first of all music, second music, third music," he said. "Now, first of all, we try to make it a play...
Hungarian-born Conductor Halasz, a slight and dynamic man who has been in the U.S. eleven years, was given a contract to produce three operas. He inherited a rococo hall, a shoe-string budget (seats are $2.40 top, one-third the Met's) and a free hand. Says he: "Where there is no money, there is no interference from pocketbooks. The only thing that can save us is ideas." At his first performance (Tosca), the guns of the firing squad failed to fire in the last act, and the hero had to drop dead without a bang. In Carmen...