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...Business of moviemaking can no longer afford to pamper its temperamental stars. This simple fact of Hollywood economics was made abundantly clear last week to Tenor Mario Lanza, Who rode to movie stardom on the success of the musical, The Great Caruso...
Lanza's new picture was to be The Student Prince. At his studio's urging, Tenor Lanza whittled down his overstuffed, 2201b. hulk to a romantic, semi-princely 178 Ibs. But on shooting day, Mario did not feel like working...
...notch soloists. Salzburg, apparently confident that the Vienna Opera was the world's best, simply transplanted it for the festival season, and booked only two big outside stars: the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone George London (a commanding Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro) and Tenor Ramon Vinay (in Otello). Salzburg's musical stalwarts of other years (Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini) were absent. But the hall was fuller than ever and Salzburg had its most profitable season since...
Part of the Bayreuth revolution was the use of top singers who had not come up through the German chain of promotion (from provincial opera houses to major cities to Bayreuth). Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, familiar at the Metropolitan Opera but a stranger to Germany, looked handsome and heroic and sang brilliantly as Tristan. German Soprano Martha Moedl, 37, had begun to sing only eight years ago, but was a warm, natural Isolde. The Brangaene was a Ukrainian contralto named Era Malaniuk. Whatever the critics thought of the sets. they seemed to agree that the new Tristan was a fine...
...felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story of the man who took his first bath: "I can't say that I liked it, but I think...