Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army (4-0-1)-with a damaging lack of depth exposed by a battling Pitt team two-deep at every position, its tired first string was obviously glad to settle for a 14-14 tie by running out the clock at game's end...
...general obviously seeks perfection. But at show's end, Vicki and Berto tied for sixth in the individual rankings, a highly creditable performance in competition against the world's best horsemen. Father Mariles had obviously produced a pair of successors Mexico could be proud...
...resemblance to the fragile figure Puccini and Murger conceived her to be; but he added that Tebaldi sang so movingly, with such tragic overtones, that her "enlarged portrait" emerged as more compelling than the original. The same thing might be said of most of her famous roles: in the end, a colleague notes, "they always come out Tebaldi...
During the months just before and after the end of World War II, Tebaldi and her mother shuttled from one small town to another. During that period, Tebaldi made her operatic debut (as Helen of Troy in Boito's Mefistofele) in Rovigo; on the way there, fighter planes strafed her train. After Toscanini hired her for the Scala opening in 1946, she smoothly embarked on the international operatic circuit. In her rise to the top she has experienced only one real failure-a performance of Traviata at La Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high...
...with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore has it that she once berated a tenor for holding the high B-flat in the love duet at the end of the second act of Andrea Chenier an instant longer than Renata did. Before every performance she used to join Renata in her dressing room for a few moments of prayer...