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...although the TV screen virtually wiped out the color contrast between her and other singers. But as Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi...
Overanxious. Although one of the Met's most imposing casts surrounded Contralto Anderson, the performance was full of flaws. Tenor Richard Tucker growled out notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly. Tenor David Poleri (Michele) has a tongue-lashing, show-stopping aria (". . . You are ashamed to say: 'I was Italian' "), and Soprano Gloria Lane* as his mistress has another...
...care for my autograph?' She fixed a frozen eye on me, then raised the book so as to obscure me. I have often wondered about her behavior." Dame Edith chimed in coolly: "I have often mused that the lady suspected you, Osbert, of having nefarious motives." Bullish Tenor Mario Lanza, who recently played a real-life role (on the Chrysler Corp.-sponsored Shower of Stars, CBS-TV) as a singer so weakened by dieting that his recorded voice had to be dubbed in for his own (TIME, Oct. 11), landed a rather controversial movie role...