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...scenes with Masetto were flawless, perhaps the most stylish singing came in the "La ci darem" duet with Giovanni. Bass Tom Weber, while rather dry-sounding and somewhat strained, made the most of Leporello's varied moods and tasks, though perhaps not with the same hilarity of his Don Alfonso (of last year's Cori). Less satisfactory were the nasal tenor of August Paglialunga, a peculiarly huge Don Ottavio, and the half-sung Masetto of Don Meaders...
...play only four concerts in Spain, but his hot-handed treatment of Spanish music so floored the audiences that he crisscrossed the country for 120 additional performances. He was feted and fawned over like a toreador. The Queen Mother, Maria Cristina, invited him to the palace for tea. King Alfonso XIII became an intimate. ("He was the most tone-deaf man I ever knew," says Rubinstein. "From the time he was seven, he was accompanied by a man assigned to nudge him whenever the national anthem was played.") His new success led to a tour of Latin America, where...
...Spanish monarchists, Franco's only legitimate successor would be Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the strapping 52-year-old son of the late King Alfonso XIII. Don Juan's official title is Count of Barcelona, but monarchists already call him King Juan III,* and in his sprawling white villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril...
This week Mayor Alfonso Cervantes, whose name is a reminder that the site of St. Louis once was ruled by Spain, plans to sign an agreement in Madrid for the purchase of the Spanish Pavilion from the New York World's Fair. For $3,300,000 in private funds, St. Louis would acquire the fair's most highly praised structure, with its three restaurants, 748-seat theater, and an art gallery. And given St. Louisans' thrust to make their city great, bonanzas are not likely to stop there...
...Yale of "trying to prove the superiority of Northern Europe." Italy's claim to Columbus, scoffed the paper, is equivalent to "crediting Germany with victory in World War II because Eisenhower is of German descent." In fact claimed A.B.C. Editor Torcuato Luca de Tena, it was Spanish Navigator Alfonso Sanchez de Huevla who first discovered the New World in 1484 eight years B.C. (before Columbus...