Word: bergonzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband to murder. But in the sleepwalking scene she rendered Verdi's compassionate music with memorable grace. As Macbeth, Baritone Leonard Warren walked through his part woodenly but sang as well as ever, while as Macduff, Tenor Carlo Bergonzi delivered one of the evening's real stunners...
After giving Dr. No the giant-land-crab treatment, the New Statesman's Critic Paul Johnson suggested that Fleming fans were psychosocial cousins of prison torturers in Algeria. In the current Twentieth Century, Bernard Bergonzi called Fleming's attitude toward sex that "of a dirty-minded schoolboy." He noted that the women are usually pushovers in a Fleming novel, and cited a bra-and-pantie-clad minx named Tiffany Case, who says not too long after she meets Bond: "I want it all, darling...
...posh St. James's Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been ironed." He-Man Bond's bath water is scented with Floris Lime bath essence, while his babes splash self-indulgently amid Guerlain bath cubes. To Critic Bergonzi, these cushy "fantasies of upper class life can only be a desire to compensate for the rigors of existence in a welfare state: they have an air of vulgarity and display...
...CARLO BERGONZI, 33, a thickset, muscular Italian tenor who paces the stage as he winds up for a big aria, is well worth hearing when he finally stands still and left loose. His voice is warm, strong and sure. Good tenors are never in plentiful supply; with Fellow Newcomers Labo and Gedda, Bergonzi makes the Met unusually rich in the tenor department...
...single performance of Aïda last week, the Met introduced three young newcomers. In the singing department, there were La Scala's big-voiced Soprano Antoinetta Stella, 27, and lyrical Tenor Carlo Bergonzi, 32. Both suffered from debutitis, but recovered, and will probably become Met regulars. Most spectacular newcomer was Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress...