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...ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched main entrance. She never went in. "I swore," says she, "that I would not enter even as a tourist until I sang there." Last week she entered, singing: at 33 she was making her La Scala debut in Aïda, and the demanding audience recognized almost at once that she would...
Handling her big, liquid soprano voice with faultless accuracy, Singer Price achieved an Aïda that was at once feline and tender, sweet and aggressive. She won bravas after her opening trio with Radames and Amneris (a place in the opera that has not drawn applause at La Scala in years), got many more ovations as she ranged effortlessly from finespun pianissimos to brilliantly ringing fortes. "Brava, Leonessa!" cried someone in the audience, while a second voice corrected: "She is more like a panther than a lioness." Said one critic: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal...
...made her grand opera debut in the NBC-TV production of Tosca ("I was the first black Tosca that big audience had seen"), later made her European grand opera debut in Aïda at the Vienna Staatsoper, guided by Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then Leontyne has had an uninterrupted string of European successes, particularly in Italy. After La Scala, Soprano Price has one more giant step ahead of her in the U.S.: next season she will sing yet another Verdian role-Leonora in Il Trovatore-in her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
Tummy Ache. In Antwerp, when Aïda. he zoo's biggest elephant, died of intestinal trouble, an autopsy revealed that her stomach contained 1,706 peanuts, 198 cheese, ham, and other kinds of sandwiches, 1,330 pieces of candy, seven ice-cream cones, 811 biscuits, 17 apples, 198 pieces of orange. 891 lumps of bread, one small sausage, 13 wads of paper, three bags, one white glove, one shoestring, for a total undigested weight...
...season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that most people muff ("Loo-EE-jee Da-la-pee-CO-la"). To take the guesswork out of pronunciation, Grayhill Productions has now issued an LP recording that no serious player can afford to be without...