Word: bergonzi
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...fine Italian hand had done to the recent Broadway flop, The Lady of the Camellias, he went into positive paroxysms of production. And when the curtain rose on each new scene of his masterpiece, the astonished audience forgot the forlorn presence of Soprano Leontyne Price and Tenor Carlo Bergonzi to shout "Stupendo! Bravo, Franco...
...idiom perfectly. "Aïda all' Americana" (Aïda American style), said La Notte, "everything bigger and better than anybody else's." Only the singers noticed that the reviews barely mentioned them at all. "I looked like my grandmother in that ancient costume," said Tenor Bergonzi, "but I don't mind if the directors get the glory today. Opera cannot go on without singers, but it can manage quite well without directors...
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...
...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...
...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...