Opera News, June 1st, 2006
In its "Names * Dates * Faces" department for the issue of March 10, 1958, OPERA NEWS carried several items that are still of interest today: NBC Opera Company had just commissioned Mana Golovin, a new work from Gian Carlo Menotti that was due for its world premiere the following summer; Mario Del Monaco was ready to sing his first Met Samson, opposite the Dalila of Rise Stevens; New York City Opera was about to present its first performances of Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, with a young American soprano named Beverly Sills taking on die lead role. But one item in particular seems al...
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