Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1951 — Page 16

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By HENRY BUTLER The Charles Wagner production of “La Traviata” last’ night packed the Murat. Opening the Martens Concerts series, this touring package of Verdi drew sustained applause and even some cheers, Enthusiasm might have been still higher if there had been any semblance of ventilation in that stuffy and sleep-inducing auditorium. Selling pop in the lobby during intermission is a tame racket. What would really go would be oxygen tents and ice packs Met Still Holds Title

generally well with an opera that owes much of its visual impact to brilliant, large-scale staging.

times praised Mr. Wagner's staging as in some ways better than the Metropolitan's. But the Met holds the title for “la Traviata,” if only in the tremendMr. Wagner's company has to get along with more easily portable symbols of grand decor. » And I think the Met also still {holds the “Traviata” title for

ATRIAL SIOSIOB

In ast night's performance, “the! stage deportment of Theodora

Brandon, as Violetta, ahd John] as Alfredo, never quite

Gallo, meshed, as we say of gears. Miss Brandon, who had to deliver a lot of singing, both lyric .and florid, seemed to awaken’belatedly to the demands of Violetta’'s role. . ‘Traviata’ Ne Cinch

Mr, Gallo,

tones and his good sense of ensemble singing carry him through a role that needs more dramatic understanding. : “Traviata,”

of course, is no

vation isn't as clear as we'd like

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whose tenor voice] may be ample for the spot he occupies in the constellation of! opera, is no great shakes as an| actor. His occasionally beautiful

cinch even for supér-stars. Moti-|

it to be in the plot, and there are! sections that horaer on tedions.

Verdi's 'Traviata' Draws Full House at

Murat

ness, both dramatically and musically. One of those sections is. the excessively long duet business between Violetta and Alfredo’s father in Act II. The old man) urges Violetta, who formerly had been a Parisienne of fairly easy| virtue, to give up Alfredo, because scandal might injure the

{marital chances of Alfredo’s sis- { ter,

Even Verdi couldn’t ‘make that bulk of verbosity seem impressive. Fine Stage Sense It took a first-rate trouper like Edwin Dunning, singing the role

(of old Giorgio Germont, to carry

Mr. Wagner's 1951 company—| that

—did | not the best he’s brought us { Dunning, carefully watching Mae

|stro Ernesto Barbini at every dif-|

laborious scene and help

Miss Brandon win plaudits. Mr.

ficult point, had fine stage sense|

tand wonderful ability to project § seasons, me-| . In previous seasons, I have some |good operatic baritone

singing through and over throat fatigue. Miss Brandon has nice tones and fair technique in the florid passages. In florid singing, she does what most sopranos do now-| adays, which is slur and fake all but two or three notes out of a given rapid scale. That's easy. If listeners haven't heard any (woman sing as - accurately

any

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