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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 19S3 - . MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE. HEDFORD, OREGON . , Bing's 1963 Opera Singers Described as lovely To Look At' BEAUTY AND VOICE Representing oper atic femininity at its eye-pleasing best, Met ropolitan Opera prima donnas (L-R) Lisa Del- la Casa, Anna Moffo, and Mary Costa are lovely to look at as well as to listen to, New Yorkers maintain. (UPI) By DELOS SMITH United Press International NEW YORK (UPI) - Rules bang on after the reasons for them disappear, in operatic circles it still is considered poor taste to so much as mention the collective pulchritude of any col lection of prima donnas. Wake up, opera fansl The reason for that muzzle on free speech is gone it is no longer true that any given 20 tons of prima donnas yield scarcely a pound of pulchritude. Have an uninhibited look at the 196344 prima donna corps at the Met ropolitan Opera. 0 boy! What a bunch of look ers! There's hardly a fully de veloped barrel chest in the lot. Four-fifths have to he rated at least as "pretty." A dozen or so are "Lovely" by any objec tive standard. A few are not one bit short of "georgeous." Prima Donnas Charm This eye-pleasing state of op eratic femininity is the culmina tion of a discreetly concealed evolution rather than a sudden happening. The Met's general manager, Rudolf Bin?, couldn't be expected to comment on the fully upholstered old-time prima donna. No gentleman could. When he took over in 1950 a number of them were around. In those days all emphasis was upon singing, the theory having been that true opera lovers close their eyes under the spell of a soprano voice and so have no awareness of the shape ol the singer. Blng began by putting empha sis upon acting, too. It also be came evident he thought singers should look the operatic roles they take. This must have been a shock to certain female bar rel-chests who with no thought of incongruity and been casting themselves as wispy girls. That was stopped by degrees, from season to season. Blng was recruiting slender sopranos and bringing them along to pri ma donna stature. On the stage they were fully believable repli cas of wispy girls. Soon they were getting the matronly roles as well. Shapely matrons are also believable. The direction of the wind was obvioUs. Several old-line prima donnas resorted to starvation diets. Bing never uttered a word in public on the subject but sea son by season only slender so pranos were added to the pri ma donna corps with a few notable exceptions justified by the superlative qualities of the voice. Singers Dazzle Now we're in this new 1963-64 season and the opera-goer is being dazzled by as much fe male loveliness as the patrons of the Broadway girlie shows even though it is on a level of high dignity. These operatic ladies sing like angels (most of them) and they have the exqui site artistry to act out their roles with the dedication of Greta Garbos. The second night of the sea son Bing displayed one of his major pulchritudtc finds, the gorgeous Lisa Delia Casa, in the role of Eva in "The Master- singers" who according to her creator, Richard Wagner, is a teen-ager. She never permitted you to doubt Wagner's word. Then came Anna Moffo, first as Manon, then as Marguerite, and Giganna D'Angelo as Gilda, these being more operatic girls whose girlishmenss was in no way believed. Either prima don na could have been a candidate for Miss America, Miss Moffo from Pennsylvania, Miss DAn gelo from Connecticut. ' , Lovely to Look At Pretty little Raina Kabaivan- ska, (who is Bulgarian, by the way) has been both Mimi and Elizabeth (in Verdi's "Don Car lo,' ) without causing the slight est strain either on eyes or credulity. So far this season Bing's prima donnas have been uniformly pleasing to look at as well as to listen to. Those so far named have been with the company for one sea son or more. A newcomer is youthful Nicoletta Panni, a niece of the operatic immortal, Giuseppe de Luca, whom nature endowed with much more than a voice, as was apparent in her debut as poor Little Mimi. Another new prima donna. who will make her debut later, is Mary Costa. She is described by a knowing Met executive as "nothing short of gorgeous." The established Met prima don nas, such as Roberta Peters, Gabriella Tucci, Anneliese Roth enberger and Jeanette Scovotti, are preparing their first roles of the reason. Not one is any need of dieting or face-lifltng. Blizzard Traps Hunters in Snow NATAL, B.C. (UPI)-A lash ing blizzard has trapped about 20 hunters in a , valley : near here. Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice at Nelson, 125 miles away. said they hoped the men had been able to make their way to rangers caoins in tne area. The blizzard which s truck without warning Wednesday left drills of snow six feet deep. The roads are impassable and no rescue party will be able to get to the stranded men for some time. A bulldozer rescued a num ber of hunters who were hud dled in the snow. Royal Canadian Mounted Po lice said a man would be able to walk in the snow for only a short time before he became exhausted. Autopsy Ordered i In Woman's Death HONOLULU (UPI) -An au topsy was ordered for a 63-year-old Oregon woman who died early Wednesday in a hotel in Hilo, Hawaii. The dead woman was identi fied as Mrs. Florence Thrane of Hood River. She checked in Tuesday at the Naniloa hotel with her hus- band.Carcus, their son, Mar cus, Jr., and a companion, Mrs. Edna W. Sutford of Portland. Mrs. Sutford, who shared a room with Mrs; Thrane, said the woman fell out of bed short ly before midnight and died shortly thereafter. Thrane said ms wile had been ill for some time. Former Governor Undergo Operation CORVALLIS (UPI) - Former Gov. 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