Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
Emanuel List, Metropolitan Opera basso, was labeled "dictatorial, insulting, penurious and cruel" by Wife Anny in a Manhattan court. She won a separation and $300-a-month support. The judge decided that the basso had abandoned her, even though the Lists did live in the same suite: a partition was between them, and List hadn't spoken to her since September...
...searched the files of the Berkeley Public Library, but I can't find a line about Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin," writes a woman in California. "Is he related to the late great Metropolitan basso...
...money-making Manhattan season, the traditional enthusiasm for Verdi and Wagner was being challenged by an increased popular demand for the lighthearted operas of Mozart. Many suspected that this de mand for Mozart was really a demand for Ezio Pinza - the brawny, lusty-voiced, 52-year-old basso who sings the Mozart scores to a fare-ye-well. As Don Giovanni, Figaro and Sarastro (in The Magic Flute} the former Italian bicycle racer had be come the Met's most reliable attraction...
...keep U.S. newspaper editors interested in Basso Pinza, his agents are now circulating a glossy, 60-page book which describes the singer as "a bronze Roman god come to life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity...