Word: escamillo
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...common to the Met's gigantic stage; Tenor Robert Rounseville brought a matinée idol's profile to Don José, but obviously had to work hard to restrain the grimaces that ordinarily go with a big voice. Like all the others, Baritone Robert Merrill as Escamillo had to unlearn one of the cardinal rules of opera-taking musical cues from the orchestra leader. The singers set the musical pace of the show because, roaming their nine sets, they were sometimes 200 feet from the 40 musicians jammed into a corner of the studio...
...four months, tall, boyish-looking George London, 29, had become the rage of Vienna. Ever since he had first loosed his wide-ranged voice as Amonasro in A'ida, it seemed he could do no wrong. He had sung his first Mephistopheles in Faust, his first Escamillo in Carmen, his first Prince Galitsky in Prince Igor to bravos from the galleries and raves from the critics. When he sang the four baritone roles of Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto and Doctor Miracle in Tales of Hoffman, there was a ten-minute ovation. Cracked one Austrian, as two Red army officers walked...