Word: callases
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For nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to find themselves honorable mention. But slowly, and largely unnoticed in the U.S., old Europe has fashioned a new...
The world's long-distance prattling champion, Columnist Elsa Maxwell, 73, gave bemused Roman newshawks a dazzling sample of her art. Of her erstwhile enemy, the Duchess of Windsor: "My friend again!" Of her erstwhile friend, Monaco's Princess Grace: "Don't talk to me about that...
Proclaiming that U.S. males should stop "staring at women's bodies and start looking at their faces again," the Caricaturists Society of America announced the results of a poll of its own members to determine "the perfect female face." Resulting composite: the "violet, limpid" eyes of Elizabeth Taylor; the...
In last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about...
Fired? We'll Strike. As the proposal slowly ground through parliamentary machinery, virtually every musician and official of an opera-owning town began to berate the government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired...