Word: bassos
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...usual sang and acted every line with half-crazed intensity, made the part so live that his audience could almost smell the sweat of medieval Moscow. Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world's greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation...
...operatic roles at a few hours' notice. He has no objection to playing minor roles, usually succeeds in making them seem major. No scene-stealer, he can be counted on to help inexperienced members of the cast. A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom. That voice, at the Metropolitan and in concert tours, grosses between $75,000 and $100,000 a year...
...charity, opera's Tenor Jan Kiepura, Contralto Coe Glade, Basso Douglas Beattie pulled Salvation Army caps down over their identities, stood on a busy Chicago street corner for ten minutes and gave out with song. (Kiepura hummed in somewhat uncharitable economy of his voice.) The melody was golden, but the take was only $2. "It wasn't bad," said Beattie afterwards, "considering the fact that people walking by on the street are intent on other things...
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...
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...