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Music
Haggin, B. H. | November 10, 1951 issue

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This article focuses on the music performance of Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto. To read the text of Rigoletto is to discover that it makes no coherent, believable, or even understandable dramatic sense; and maybe the most carefully and intelligently contrived sets and staging cannot produce such sense in a performance; but little care and less intelligence were evident in what one saw in the New York City Opera performance. An opera company may have to put on performances with inadequate singers in some of the important roles; but it is difficult to understand a record company recording an opera with such singers.

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OPERA; MUSICIANS; SINGERS; MUSIC -- Performance; CONCERTS; SOUND studios
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