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...more than memories in Italy. Along with the younger corps of fine singers, they have been lured away by bigger money and better working conditions in the U.S. and elsewhere. What is left is hardly satisfying to the discriminating Italians. "They want the real pasta asciutta," says Tenor Mario del Monaco, "not ersatz spaghetti...
...fact, opera attendance in Italy has slipped off by more than 30% in the past 15 years. At the core of the problem is a serious deficiency in young talent. Time was when there were as many first-rate young singers in Italy as pigeons in Piazza del Duomo. But now, with the high cost of training, most singers are not willing to devote the seven to ten years necessary to cultivate their voices. Moreover, the number of Italian opera houses where a fledgling singer can test his roulades has declined from 80 in 1930 to only 17 today...
Before the race, Abe's Hope's trainer, Del Carroll, had declared, "Graustark looks invincible." After the race, many owners and trainers, who were thinking of staying out of it, decided to ship their colts to Churchill Downs after all. It looked as if it would be a large field "of 16 or 18," said a Derby spokesman. And when news came that Graustark's infection was worse following the Blue Grass, the early odds on him shifted from...
CALDARA: IL GIUOCO DEL QUADRIGLIO (Nonesuch). Quadriglio, perhaps the best-known work of the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736), is a showpiece cantata for four sopranos. It was commissioned by Archduchess Maria Theresa (later Empress of Austria) and performed at court by her and her sisters. The ladies must have minded their singing master to negotiate the runs and trills that ornament this gay, witty music about four bored young damsels desultorily playing cards and wishing that both their hands and their suitors were more exciting. The soloists and orchestra of the Societàa Cameristica di Lugano have...
...house in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. General Manager Rudolf Bing, 64, cocked an expert ear at all the noise and reported: "We're in great shape." Then the kids settled down for a performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, the first show in the new quarters, which open officially in September...