Word: lecouvreur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music world as well. Conductor Herbert von Karajan saved rehearsal time for last year's Salzburg Festival production of Die Walküre by having the singers study cassettes made from his earlier recording of the opera. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik taped a recording of Adriana Lecouvreur on her cassette and is now using it to learn the role she will sing next season...
...When she returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week after an absence of a year, she decided that having refurbished her form, she would also refurbish an old -to Met audiences-unfamiliar role. She insisted on singing the title part in Francesco Cilèa's Adriana Lecouvreur, an opera that had been performed at the Met just twice, a half-century...
...because of other commitments made during the Met's recent lengthy labor negotiations. Actual reason for her desertion, charged the prima donna, was that the Met management had shamelessly violated a promise "of many years" by scratching its scheduled revival of a Tebaldi favorite, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur...