Word: beniamino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verdi's month on records. Victor reissued a superlative performance of one of the most remarkable works of all time: the Requiem (4 sides LP). The music has all the passion and dramatic impact of a Verdi opera, and the soloists, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Ebe Stignani and Ezio Pinza, were all able to do it justice when this version was originally recorded in 1939. Conductor Tullio Serafin does his share with the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of Rome. The recording is good...
...have a career through you." Patron-Business Manager Weiler paid off $11,000 of Lanza's debts, canceled his current broadcasts and concert bookings, gave him $90 a week to live on and sent him to study with Enrico Rosati, then 72, who had taught the great Beniamino Gigli. In all, he sank some $90,000 into Lanza before any money began to come back...
...Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino Gigli. The overall favorites, however, are Music, Music, Music and Chattanooga Shoeshine...
...jolly-jowled Tenor Bjoerling (pronounced Bee-yorling) was one of the first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured the U.S. in the "Bjoerling Male Quartet" with...