Word: bett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's despair. A failed rabbi, Abram despised Baruch's vanity and usury, refused to learn the lending trade, struck up a friendship and a religious dialogue with a simple Catholic monk. To the consternation of his parents. Abram also gradually fell in love with Bett, their poor Christian servant girl...
...role of the wealthy burgher Ford. In the second act Ford sang his famous monologue E sogne? a realta? and shortly made his exit. As the orchestra launched into the music of the act's second scene, the audience began chanting an unfamiliar name: "Tibbett! Tibbett! Tib-bett!" Conductor Tullio Serafin waved his orchestra to silence and through the gold curtain stepped a slim young man with a putty-shaped nose to acknowledge an ovation that stopped the opera for 20 minutes...