Word: ezio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bloody Mary is the girl I love," sang the sailors, and for 1,694 Broadway performances, audiences loved her too, as the scheming, betelnut-chewing Tonkinese mama who belted out Happy Talk, and sang Bali Ha'i with such feeling that she nearly stole the show from Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin...
...especially tenors, ought to eschew sex before performing, but that it does a world of good for the girls' voices. One Metropolitan Opera tenor is said to abstain for ten days prior to and ten days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice...
VERDI: REQUIEM (RCA Victor). The virtues of this new recording are the soloists. Carlo Bergonzi is good enough to make the listener forget Jussi Bjoerling's masterly reading of the Ingemisco. Birgit Nilsson is all fire; Lili Chookasian and Ezio Flagello both have big, warm voices. The difficulties stem from Erich Leins-dorf's conducting of the Boston Symphony. The pace is much too slow. The long, dramatic Otello-like lines enshroud the listener rather than move him. Tullio Serafin's interpretation of the Requiem (Angel) is still the best...
...Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak and two months building the supporting cast and two months wrangling with the Shuberts about a theater and three months working up an advertising campaign and two months in rehearsal and two months on the road and-and then at last the great day came. After...
...notch above last year's high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over 25,000 fans...