Word: ezio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival was a gala occasion. A throat affliction prevented Soprano Rosa Ponselle from appearing as Donna Anna. But Leonora Corona, pretty, fat-cheeked Texan, sang creditably if not brilliantly a role she had had only four weeks to prepare. Other interpretations were careful, unexciting. Italian Ezio Pinza made a dashing Don in brocaded breeches and wide-plumed hats, but his voice lacked the subtlety needed for Mozart's tunes...
...every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted in Italy, since they are "more of a nuisance than a benefit." The daring rebuker of Il Duce's favorite editor was Signor Ezio Maria Gray, President of the Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into...
...plays to match his music; because Italo Montemezzi sniffed the music in the lines, caught the magic of the mood and translated it for an orchestra; because tragedy melts easily into the rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, last week...
...Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera in the casts, such famed ones as Elisabeth Rethberg, Edward Johnson, Ezio Pinza, Tibbett, Jeritza, and the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet...
...came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...