Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacles. These sometimes blow up on stage, e.g., David Poleri, who three years ago walked off Chicago's Civic Opera House stage just before he was supposed to stab his Carmen; or display such neurotic symptoms as getting too fat, e.g., Mario Lanza; or become overtly adventurous, e.g., Caruso was arrested for making a pass at a woman in the monkey house of the Central Park...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week as Don José in Carmen near the end of his finest season yet. A onetime cantor in a New York synagogue, he is one of the top tenors, and some think the best, in the world today. "Caruso, Caruso, that's all you hear!" Met General Manager Rudolf Bing once said. "I have an idea we're going to be proud some day to be able to tell people we have heard Tucker...
...Normal effective singing range is roughly two octaves, more with voice training. Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas has three octaves, up to F sharp above the staff. The great Caruso had a C -only an octave and four notes lower than Callas' high note, a bottom C down in the bass range, three octaves lower...
...staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
Died. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 62, U.S.-born widow of great Tenor Enrico Caruso, author of Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; of cancer; in Baltimore...