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...weeks before its opener last fall, the Metropolitan Opera found itself in a jam. Boris Christoff, the Bulgarian basso who was scheduled to sing King Philip in the opening-night Don Carlo, had been turned down for a visa. Met Manager Rudolf Bing had to gamble, and gamble fast. He staked his show on a 28-year-old singer named Cesare Siepi, who was almost unknown outside Italy. Handsome young Basso Siepi has turned out to be one of the best bets any opera manager ever made...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...
Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight...
...Less the Better. By opening night this week, she had led all of the stars-Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Don Carlo), new Italian Basso Cesare Siepi
...After 416 performances as the love-struck French planter in South Pacific, Basso Ezio Pinza...