Word: bleaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fear of Tomatoes. The trouble started in December when Italian Tenor Ruggiero Bondino, 27, screeched out an unwritten high C in the first act of Traviata. "Bleater!" screamed the galleryites. "Go back and join your goatherd!" Later, for the benefit of Conductor Arturo Basile, they added: "Kill the conductor as well as the tenor!" Tenor Bondino beat a timorous retreat to his hotel under police escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed...
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