Word: arnoldo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only casualty was Tenor Kurt Baum of the Metropolitan Opera, who sang the young lover Arnoldo; on Tell's opening night, his voice cracked on some nearly impossible high notes, and before long had the hypercritical Italian audience jeering. Said a theater official, mopping his neck between acts: "There is always an atmosphere of the battlefield about our performances, but this is the most ferocious audience I have seen in 30 years...