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Word: brignoli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Years ago, a leading New York tenor named Brignoli made a point of not being touched during onstage love scenes; that, he felt, would have been both indecent and unlucky. More recently, Soprano Beverly Sills went through an entire act of La Traviata with a tenor who never once looked at her. Conclusion: tenors as a group are still not only shorter and rounder than their heroines, but as adroit as ever at underwhelming them romantically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Making Love to the Public | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

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