Word: campora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Maria Callas. Sordello, Campora...
When it was over, and everybody else was killed off too, the audience came back to reality and howled like the West Point cheering section while Maria Callas curtsied, hugged herself and blew kisses through 14 long curtain calls. Tenor Giuseppe Campora, who had given a vocally beautiful performance, doggedly appeared with her every time, although toward the end he began to look rather tired of keeping up with Callas...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Faust, with Kirsten, Campora, Guarrera, Hines. Conductor: Monteux...
Composer Giuseppe Verdi, who discovered Egypt some 80 years ahead of Hollywood, set the yarn to some of the finest music ever to come out of Italy. Director Clemente Fracassi has put it in the mouths of Top Singers Renata Tebaldi, Ebe Stignani and Giuseppe Campora (with supporting singers from La Scala and the Rome Opera). He has had his visible actors synchronize their lips and slow-motion movements with the music. Unfortunately, his $3,000,000 budget apparently made no allowances for up-to-date recording equipment. Too often Aida rasps and burbles as though it were being played...
Already an informal campaign is under way for Evita as Vice President. Last week Hector Campora, president of the Chamber of Deputies, gave the word to Peronista Congressmen to start work for Mr. & Mrs. in '52. The only doubt seems to hinge on whether the idea is too shocking to the Argentine tradition of male superiority. If Eva gets the green light, there may be no limit. She has already risen to greater heights of power than any woman in Latin American history...