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Little else daunts Lloyd's. It has covered Durante's nose, Dietrich's legs, Callas' voice and Nikita Khrushchev's safety on his 1959 visit to the U.S. Many fathers of newborn twins have collected from Lloyd's, and 20th Century-Fox recovered $2...
∙SINGERS. Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson and Leontyne Price had only twelve listings among them three years ago; now they have 53, one less than Renata Tebaldi has all to herself. Tebaldi is still the most recorded soprano, but Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is gaining fast and will soon pass her. Maria...
Glamorous Maria Callas, 39-long the favorite diva of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis-stepped onstage at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and her audience succumbed to love at first sight. Not so German critics, who ungallantly complained about the sound. "The passion has disappeared," said Die Welt's...
"Of the three octaves her voice once covered, only the middle range remains unchanged." After the blitz, Callas remained incommunicado. Said her manager: "We don't argue with critics," though it did seem pesky of them to count up "the notes that went wrong, and not the thousands of...
The Italian opera box office offers something of a demurrer. The biggest crowds today come to see the costliest productions; about the only singers in the country who can fill a theater by their names alone any more are Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. And Di Stefano feels the...