Word: beniamino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tamed Tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose friendliness toward the Nazis caused U.S. Army officials to bar him from singing at a United Nations concert in Rome (TIME, July...
...Beniamino Gigli, huffy-puffy, onetime Metropolitan Opera tenor repatriated in 1939, was invited by the British to sing at a concert in Rome, then disinvited at the last moment by U.S. Army officials, after his fellow Romans sounded off about his late pro-fascism (TIME, June 19). Gigli, whose announced selection for the concert was I Close My Eyes to Dream, declared himself an artist, not a politician, said: "I'll sing for the British and Americans . . . but I'll never sing for the Italians again...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...
Sopranos Margaret Matzenauer, Elisabeth Rethberg; Tenor Beniamino Gigli; Baritone Titta Ruffo...
...works of Beniamino Benvenuto Bufano, California sculptor, have caused mild civic insurrections and tournaments of mudslinging. Last week's row was the biggest...