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Puccini: Tosco (Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The seventh complete version of Puccini's old pulse-bumper, and one of the best. The name part is sung fervently and in high style by Brooklyn-born Soprano Callas...
...Opera, warning that she might have to substitute for an ailing Susanna (Nadine Conner) in that night's performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and advising her to go home and rest up. Pretty Roberta went home, all right, but not to rest; she had never sung the opera, had not even studied it for five years. She called in a relay of coaches, who put her through the plot, brushed her up on the endless chatter of Italian recitatives, reminded her of the Metropolitan's new stage layout. At 5:30 she was polishing...
...acting, though, that is the show's real charm, btu the frequent excerpts from the operettas. Tastefully staged, expertly sung, and only seldom edited for length, this vignette version of Gilbert and Sullivan is tantalizing. Mixed with inner thanks for the privilege of seeing a trifling number of songs well done, there will rankle in each G & S fan's heart an anger that there is not more...
...fiendish Duke ("We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked"). Roberta Peters as the imprisoned Princess was so appealing visually and vocally that it was hard to believe she had raced to the TV studio straight from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb cast went to Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the wonder-working Golux who came by his magical power because...
...opposition they met hardly justified the effort. Expecting the uninvited visitors the three hundred residents of the town assembled in the school-yard to wait for the invasion. When the swarm of deputies took over the town, they did so to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner sung by Short Creek residents as they hoisted a fluttering American flag into the dawn breeze. This exemplary patriotism did not deter the Law, and the town's thirty-six men were taken to jail; the eighty-six now-lonely women went to foster homes in Phoenix...