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...Bomb-ravaged Berlin is having a brilliant opera season this year. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
...Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...
Speaking of Wagner, Columbia has signed Melchior up, and just released his first recorded attempt at "Otello." The album comprises the monologue and death scene, along with Rienzi's prayer, and the song from the second act of "Tristan" beginning "O Koenig." These records show that he is the only tenor in circulation who could do this tremendous role anything like full justice. His Italian isn't all it might be, and his style is a little heavy in spots, but the necessary power and brilliance are there. The best of this new album of his is, of course...
...program will include a Dutch Folk Song, "Prayer of Thanksgiving"; Josquin des Pres, "O Domine Jesu Christi"; Verdi, opening scene from "Otello"; Scottish Folk Song, "Bonnic Dundee"; American Folk Song, arranged by Edward B. Lawton, "Casey Jones"; and Sullivan, four choruses from "Patience...
...Check Please": around Town with the Gid 7:35 Opera Night: Verdi's "Otello" 8:30 "From Wall-Flower to Conga King"; six lessons from Madame in Dixon 8:45 "No Intervention for Now"; a talk by Professor William E. Hocking 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 An original play by the Radio Workshop 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Ravel--I a Sibelius--2nd Symphony 10:45 Crimson News