Word: divas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music world's most talented and tempestuous diva, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, winged from Italy to touch native soil for the first time since she held eight outnumbered process servers to a draw in a Chicago Civic Opera House fracas (TIME, Nov. 21). Sued for $300,000 by a Manhattan attorney who keeps on claiming that she owes him 10% of her earnings since he launched her in 1947 (when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted...
...smiles, inviting glances and, among the company's Italian singers, audible coos. The heiress of a family of Turkish landowners, she gave up the idea of developing her voice when she married a banker. But in 1948 he encouraged her to study at the conservatory. Today she is diva of the Turkish State Opera in Ankara and is known across Europe...
Helen Gahagan Douglas, onetime actress and San Francisco Opera Company diva before she became a three-term (1945-51) Democratic Representative from California, said she was returning to her first love, would give a Manhattan song recital at the end of the month...
...aspidistra is a hardy house plant with stiff, glossy leaves, long a homely windowsill badge of respectability in lower-middle-class British homes, and celebrated in song by Music Hall Diva Gracie Fields (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World...
Tebaldi excells in the delicate spinning out of a phrase with a lovely, floating mezza-voce (half-voice). She loves to linger over each tone color much in the manner of the tenor Gigli. There is no doubt that she is a true diva; even her faults are majestic. Her voice is accustomed to soaring over an orchestra, and the bare accompaniment of a piano could not hide her steely, shrill quality at full voice, another common trait of Italian sopranos...