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...technique all but obliterated the competition. The other voice contestants, especially the girls from Eastern Europe, exhibited little personality, stood like glaciers when they sang; Marsh, dressed in a flowing yellow chiffon gown, displayed the poise and personality of an established prima donna. In the finals, her arias from Otello, Susannah and Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian) convinced the jury that the voice inside the girl was as beautiful as the girl inside the dress...
...listener forget Jussi Bjoerling's masterly reading of the Ingemisco. Birgit Nilsson is all fire; Lili Chookasian and Ezio Flagello both have big, warm voices. The difficulties stem from Erich Leins-dorf's conducting of the Boston Symphony. The pace is much too slow. The long, dramatic Otello-like lines enshroud the listener rather than move him. Tullio Serafin's interpretation of the Requiem (Angel) is still the best...
...complained the island's merchants, the strollers were window-shopping and little else. "Sales have dropped 50%," wailed the owner of two woolens shops. "This is not an island, it's a desert," snarled a tobacconist. "They're trying to make a graveyard," complained Restaurateur Otello Caporicci, "out of the historical center of Rome." The aggrieved merchants banded together, turned out the lights in their shopwindows in protest. Some restaurants even served food by candlelight. Meanwhile, outside the island, traffic piled up on the perimeter in an angry, tooting wall of vehicles, often preventing even buses...
...then a play at the Seven O'Clock Theater. Ballet or opera was the choice of enchantments for the evening-Choreographer John Cranko's intensely dramatic Romeo and Juliet, the swirling color of Yugoslav folk dances, or Conductor Thomas Schippers' sonorous rendition of Verdi's Otello...
...from Darius Milhaud's David to La Scala's now-famed 1958 rendition of Turandot with Birgit Nilsson. Now Wallmann is off to Rome and a new opera by Italian Composer Mario Zafred; next, a production of Rossini's Zelmira at Naples, and Verdi's Otello for the opening of the Athens Festival. If her schedule holds, Wallmann will make it to Manhattan in time to mount La Gioconda for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in the fall...