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...Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended up as a professor of music in Lenoir, N.C. Her own big break came in 1939 when Soprano Grace Moore heard her, and sent her to Italy to study with famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli's teacher. Despite the war, Dorothy wanted to stay in Naples, but her worried family managed to get the U.S. consul to have her forcibly deported...
...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...