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Homecoming at La Scala From a box near the stage, one admirer threw a red rose. From the rest of the house welled warm, welcoming applause. After eleven triumphant years in the New World, Licia Albanese, 37, one of the Metropolitan Opera's top sopranos, had returned to Milan's La Scala...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Boheme, with Licia Albanese and Richard Tucker...
...trouble was the singers. As La Scala's great Conductor Victor de Sabata put it: "In the old days we picked our singers; now we take what the impresarios have to offer." And with such Italian singers as Ezio Pinza, Salvatore Baccaloni, Italo Tajo, Licia Albanese and the Tagliavinis lured to greener U.S. pastures, Italian impresarios did not have much to offer...
...mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...
...most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung the role of lago with more splendor and imagination-or acted it with less. Soprano Licia Albanese, in her first Met Desdemona, was fine in her lyrical moments in the Willow Song and the magnificent Ave Maria; but as a dramatic soprano, she lacked enough voltage to electrify the house...