Word: puccini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city that only three years ago saw a rancorous strike senselessly deprive thousands of printers and journalists of jobs, and New York of a great newspaper, talk of the Met's going out of business was chilling indeed. Considerable damage has already been done. Two promising revivals-Puccini's Fanciulla del West and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin-have already been lost even if the Met opens, as it still conceivably could, in a month. Herbert von Karajan's new Siegfried, which must be done in November or not at all, seems likely to be scratched...
...also willing to learn the most complicated role in - by old-fashioned standards - nothing flat. This summer at Santa Fe, he is doing two American premieres (The Devils and Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks) as well as Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte and Puccini's Tosca...
MARIA CALLAS (Angel 3502, 3508). Bellini's 1 Puritani and Puccini's Tosca: the Greek-American soprano in her prime...
SANTA FE OPERA, N. Mex., was completely destroyed by fire last July. Rebuilt at a cost of $1,750,000, it is scheduled to reopen July 2 with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, followed by six other new productions, among them the U.S. premières of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids (Aug. 7 and 9), conducted by the composer, and Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter...
...Italian conductor of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera from 1924 to 1934; of a heart attack; in Rome. For half a century Serafin conducted at Milan's La Scala, the Met, London's Covent Garden, and Paris' Opéra. A great interpreter of Verdi and Puccini, he also championed such U.S. composers as Deems Taylor and Louis Gruenberg...