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...Basso Cesare Siepi. To little avail. Of the four stars, nobody sang well in Act I, and Milanov appeared to be suffering from dizziness, staggering and finally getting herself planted before starting to sing. Vocally, she was plagued by an excruciatingly bad sense of pitch, although she had sung her role commendably in the dress rehearsal. Her loyal supporters wore lapel buttons reading "Viva Zinka!", but it did not help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Travesty at the Met | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...beautiful a girl as you could wish, of which fact Liberty has taken advantage with no less than thirteen large color portraits on her latest album. Despite the visual effects, though, her best LP remains the first, (Lib. 3006) with just Guitar and Bass. If you like your songs sung intimately and on the slow side, she's your dish...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: O'Day, Conner, and London | 11/27/1956 | See Source »

...Opera Guild has done as good a job as possible in bringing opera to Harvard, yet the question remains whether a permanent repertoire company can be maintained when the proper voices are, quite frankly, lacking. Unless outside singers are brought in, there are few operas that can be capably sung here. But whatever its future, the first production of the Opera Guild is a spirited, if imperfect, performance of one of music's great comic masterpieces...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Barber of Seville | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

...most important task fell to the singers themselves. The great majority had never had major roles before and few of those who had stage experience had sung in grand opera. Still fewer were familiar with Boris Goldovsky's directing techniques as presented by Schoep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problems of Producing an Opera | 11/7/1956 | See Source »

...manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around the statue. The national anthem was sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: When the Earth Moved | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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