Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British authori ties to Mexico to conduct a festival of three Mozart operas, Sir Thomas arrived to find a rival opera season in full swing at Mexico City's only opera house. Promised Government support for his festival had failed to materialize. One of his leading singers, Basso Carlos Rufino, had recently shot an amatory rival in a Mexico City movie theater and was giving rehearsals a discouragingly defensive tone by packing a pistol...
Last week the rival Don Giovanni came off. Despite a few first-rate voices, it resembled a turgid Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent...
Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star, took precautions against dog homesickness as he handed his Dalmatians, Boris and Figaro, over to Dogs for Defense. With the dogs, long accustomed to his house-filling basso, he sent records of their master's voice...
Books which dealt with the future in terms of past history were: Historian Charles Beard's distinguished examination of U.S. democracy, The Republic ($3), Bernard DeVoto's The Year of Decision: 1846 ($3.50), Hamilton Basso's Mainstream...
...early training in antics. Born Nat Birnbaum into a family of twelve children on Manhattan's crowded Pitt Street, he began his theatrical career of necessity at the age of seven, after his father died. George organized the Pee-Wee Quartet, featuring himself and a six-year-old basso. The four took turns passing the hat in saloons and backyards...