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Show Music Arts Group Slates Final Concert for March 13 1 Guiseppe Di Stefano, handsome hand-some 28-year-old Italian tenor of the Metropolitan Opera will appear ap-pear here for the first time at 8:15 p. m. on Monday, March 13 in the course of his second American Amer-ican concert tour. The concert will be given in the Cedar City public school auditorium aud-itorium under the auspices of the Music Arts Association. Di Stefano made his Met debut de-but in February 1918 as the Duke in "Rigoletto", a role for which he was eminently suited by looks, temperament and voice. His arrival In the United States came after a siecdy rise which was extraordinary even in Italy where one afternoon a tenor Is "found" digging ditches and that night sings the lead in "Fagliac. cl". Less than two years before his Metropolitan premiere, Di Ste- Id III), llll'll . t, au-'i-u iiiiu " buckled shoes and powdered wig or the ardent des Grieux in "Marion" "Ma-rion" to make his bow at the Reg-gio Reg-gio Emilia, provincial opera house. His success was so phenomenal phenomen-al that in the next three months he was engaged for ierformances at Venice, Bologna, Romagna and Barcelona. Within ten months he was ready for his big-time debut de-but at the Rome 0era House. Two months later, he scored again in Italy's first opera house, La Scala. He was immediately snapped up by the Metropolitan where he sang in "Rigoletto" and "Manon" in his first season. He has since appeared at the New York house in leading tenor parts In "Mignon", "Traviata", "L'Elisir d'Amore". "Falstaff" and "Gianni Sohicchi". The New York Times describes his voice as "probably the purest and freshest Italian tenor in the Met-, Met-, ropolltan Opera." |