Word: basiola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Armand Tokatyan, tenor, bit Mario Basiola, baritone, on the ear, one evening last week. That was all right, for they were performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...
...rotund Italian baritone, Mario Basiola, made his début as the King of Ethiopia...
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