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Meneghini CallasX The offering: Cima-rosa's charming // Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
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