Word: zerlina
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...real-life romance blossomed at the Metropolitan Opera. Baritone Robert Merrill, 33, recently reinstated after a wayward detour to Hollywood, and 21-year-old Soprano Roberta Peters, who made a dramatic debut in a last-minute substitution a year and a half ago as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, announced they would marry this summer. They met while singing Figaro and Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in which Figaro tries to persuade Rosina to marry the romantic tenor, Count Almaviva. Cracked Merrill: "This time the baritone got the girl...
...Manager Rudolf Bing first spotted Hilde Gueden in 1947, when she was singing in Paris with the touring Vienna State Opera. The next season he got her up to his Edinburgh Festival to sing Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Since then she has been busy in Vienna, Salzburg and Milan, but Bing got her to the Met as fast as he could...
...summer week of laughs gave her enough confidence that fall to try a role at the Met that Edward Johnson, whose faith in Patrice never wavered, always thought she could do: the country maid Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Pretty as a picture, and gaily outmaneuvering the lecherous Don, she made the critics and audiences sit up. Having discovered what was good for her, the next summer she talked herself into the cast of a West Coast Rose Marie, and worked hard on her comedy timing and spoken lines. By then she had discovered that...
ROBERTA PETERS, who comes from The Bronx, and, like Patrice Munsel, studies with William Herman. A chirrupy young (21) soprano and a born actress, she made a surprise hit as Zerlina in Don Giovanni last year. Sopranos Peters and Munsel are mutual admirers: Roberta keeps a scrapbook on Patrice, and Patrice, who often sits through Roberta's lessons, admiringly pronounces Roberta "great...
Soprano Nadine Conner, scheduled to sing the role of Countrymaid Zerlina, had folded with food poisoning. Bing had to find a substitute fast. Roberta had memorized the role and, at 5 ft. 2 in., was a neat fit in Conner's costume. After an afternoon of cramming sessions with Stage Director Herbert Graf, Assistant Manager Max Rudolf and some final tips just an hour before curtain time from Conductor Fritz Reiner, Roberta was waved onstage. She turned out to be just about the only bright light in an otherwise lusterless performance...