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...European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with an Italian tutor, she made her Met debut in Il Trovatore. Now she is the Met's first choice in such Italian operas as Aida, La Gioconda, La Forza del Destino and Norma. Of Norma, Mme. Milanov says proudly: "To sing it a woman must have had very big experience in life...
...voices really worth recording dwindled to a handful. One great voice that lasted long enough to be well recorded was Soprano Claudia Muzio's. Probably no living soprano (she died in 1936) approaches the vocal assurance and dramatic power recorded here in arias from Norma, Traviata, Forza del Destino, etc. Recording: good...
Forzo del Destino...
...thing even E tu Destino could not explain-the sense of loss that brooded above Mount Allegro, the feeling of being strange and alien in a strangely alien land. At school the second generation were told that if they were born here they were American, but "then one day one of your new teachers looked at you brightly and said you were Italian because your last name was Amoroso and that too was puzzling." You talked it over with your father but he wasn't very helpful. "Your children will be Americani, but you, my son, are half...