Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...Basso De Profundia...
Free again in the land of the free was veteran operatic Basso Ezio Pinza after two and a half months on Ellis Island as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. Roman-born Pinza was released on parole announced his intention of doing everything he could to help the United Nations win the war, resuming his career...
...Ezio Pinza, dashing basso of the Metropolitan Opera for 15 years, sat on Ellis Island while a substitute Mephistopheles sang at the winter season's last matinee. Italian-born Basso Pinza, who had eleven touring dates, also had one with an examining board: he was in the hands of the FBI as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. His second wife, American Doris Leak Pinza, and his mother-in-law described him as an enthusiastic, 100% American. "He never even met Mussolini," declared his wife. Fretted her mother: "I hope they don't hurt his feelings. He is very...
Arturo Toscanini, Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Basso Ezio Pinza, as "enemy aliens," found they had to get U.S. permission to travel from city to city. Questionnaires had to be filled out in quadruplicate for each jump. It meant that concertouring Lehmann signed 80, concertouring Pinza 88 (both of them have taken out their first papers). Toscanini won the right to go from New York to Philadelphia to Washington...