Word: warren
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Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Roberta Peters and Baritone Robert Merrill join Soprano Eleanor Steber and Tenor Richard Tucker in a program that includes a tribute to the late great baritone, Leonard Warren...
Slow Study. On a bet, he tried out for the 1938 Metropolitan Auditions of the Air, armed with exactly five operatic arias. When he heard the Warren voice, Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who was directing the auditions from a control room, thought somebody was playing a joke on him by slipping on a record of a famous baritone. Warren won, and he began his Met career in 1939 singing the minor role of Paolo Albiani in Simon Boccanegra...
...Warren's passion for accuracy was felt at the Met. He offered advice to conductors, directors, photographers, engineers and other singers. Several seasons ago, when he disagreed with the conductor's tempo during a Verdi opera, he grabbed the man by the throat and announced: "If you don't stick to the proper tempo, so help me I'll walk off the stage...
Triumphant Moment. In tribute to its great baritone, the Met last week opened a performance of The Flying Dutchman the day after his death with the prelude to Act IV of Traviata. Earlier in the week Warren himself had supplied an even more fitting tribute when he appeared in a new production of Simon Boccanegra, in which he had made his little-noticed debut 21 years ago. Last week's revival (the first in a decade) benefited from some magnificently colorful sets, the muscular conducting of Dimitri Mitropoulos and fine performances from most of the cast. But the opera...
Died. Leonard Warren, 48, topnotch U.S. baritone; of a stroke; on stage at the Metropolitan Opera (see Music...