Word: rigolettos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with a robustious performance of Rigoletto, the Rome Opera's 1949 summer season came to a close. Many of the 200,000 tourists who visited Caracalla found performances full of more swaggering and hair-on-the-chest acting than they were accustomed to; also, the vast distances sometimes provoked more screaming than singing by Caracalla's puffing stars. But most could agree that they had never seen such a striking setting or such magnificent staging...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Rigoletto, with Patrice Munsel, Leonard Warren, Jan Peerce...
...Foxhall Road embassy. The Belgians found Margaret Truman charming. One of them playfully told her that, because she always sang solo, he could outdo her as a singer. He then proceeded, to the delight of both Margaret and her father, to sing all four parts of a quartet from Rigoletto...
Last week, Manhattan got its first chance to hear dashing, 26-year-old Di Stefano. New York's Italian opera fans, a demonstrative lot, were out in strength. As the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto, Giuseppe's soaring tenor was always good, if not always golden; and he had a dramatic way of hanging on to his ringing top notes until the claque started. The claque's din was soon equaled by the audience's "bravos...
...tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would get to Lisbon in time for their performance of Rigoletto. Paris finally sent "a thousand regrets," and the express rolled...