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...even if it rains girls. But during his brief shore leave, Miss de Carlo inspires him to compose Song of India, Flight of the Bumblebee, Hymn to the Sun and practically every other famed achievement of the composer's lifetime except his streamlining of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunoff. The Metropolitan Opera's Charles Kullman, as the ship's tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel with whips. Miss Arden and ship's Captain Brian Donlevy look on as if they could think...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Ezio Pinza and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Emil Cooper conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Most listeners will probably prefer Kipnis' fine Russian version (TIME, June 4) to Pinza's Italian. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Alexander Kipnis and Ilya Tamarin with the Victor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Nicolai Berezowsky and Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A great Russian opera becomes one of the great operatic recordings. Almost too carefully abridged, the album nevertheless keeps fine dramatic continuity. Kipnis' voice is monumental in the ominous clock scene and in the death finale. Performance and recording: excellent...
...stage performance of Boris Godunoff, which opened the Metropolitan Opera's diamond jubilee season last week, Critic Downes was right. The horse, a splendid specimen of white charger from the Ben Hur Stables, succeeded repeatedly in bringing down the house. On several occasions as his rider, Tenor Armand Tokatyan, soared toward a top note, the animal turned a ripely expressive backside to the audience and obliged Tokatyan to sing squarely into the scenery...
Outside the opera house Basso Pinza looks like a prosperous retired bullfighter. He works over his roles as systematically as a strategist planning a campaign, ransacking Manhattan's libraries, boning up on history, costumes, manners. To make his Boris Godunoff fall dead with proper dignity, he practiced hurling his 191 lb. on to the Metropolitan's floor boards for hours, until he was so badly bruised he could hardly walk...