Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart's music was kept feather-light and crystal-clean. Soprano Phyllis Curtin and Mezzo Frances Bible were as pretty a brace of slim beauties as ever taunted a gallant; Tenor John Alexander and Baritone Mac Morgan sang warmly as the two gentlemen, who conclude: "Women cannot be faithful . . . You have to take them as they are." The production-light, stylized, and done as a great sunny joke-was a tribute to TV's growing sophistication in the use of color...
Vulnerable Spot. Then something went agley. Dody began basking in her new limelight-and looking as if she expected her laughs. She also started irritating Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told...
...Napoleon. As she grew up, she displayed a tough mind and an absurd imagination-something between Racine and Edward Lear, says Biographer Stirling. When she insisted on behaving like her own fictional characters (e.g., flinging an ivory cigar case from her opera box at the feet of an Italian tenor), it became clear that England was not for her nor she for England...
Fausto Cleva, not the Met's liveliest conductor, this time set his singers a brisk pace, never permitted any sagging in the supple vocal line that Verdi skillfully stitched through Arrigo Boito's libretto. As Othello, Tenor Mario del Monaco sailed onstage in full joyous shout in his "Esultate," and from there on through his Act III explosion of jealous rage, never pausing to be subtle, kept the house ringing and the stage dark with passion. Baritone Leonard Warren as lago proved again his ability to soar dramatically or modulate to a mahogany pianissimo, invested his role with...
...proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo is the most hagridden hero in opera...