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...Less the Better. By opening night this week, she had led all of the stars-Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Don Carlo), new Italian Basso Cesare Siepi
Metropolitan Opera (Mon. 7:45 p.m., ABC-TV). Don Carlo, with Jussi Bjoerling...
...first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she had sung duets from La Boheme and Romeo with Jussi, she had proved she had something more than a talented amateur's equipment, if something less, after too many years away from public singing, than a professional way of using it. She would get a chance to correct that: Jussi's manager had signed her to tour...
...peak of his career at 39, jolly-jowled Tenor Bjoerling (pronounced Bee-yorling) was one of the first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured...
...Jussi is looking forward to getting a few hints on histrionics before he sings on opening night at the Met next November. His assignment: the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, with Broadway Shakespearean Director Margaret Webster doing the directing and giving Jussi the hints...