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...Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and sang Ah, spietata from Handel's Amadigi. As the evening wore on, a suave, white-tied figure kept scurrying back and forth between the two programs: Aurelio ("Ray") Fabiani, promoter of both wrestling and music, was hard at work on both sides of show-business history...
Last week Fabiani, still presenting his usual weekly wrestling programs, proudly announced plans to bring an impressive roster of Metropolitan Opera stars to Philadelphia next season for opera performances. In his long career, 59-year-old Promoter Fabiani has also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
Married. Alberto Fabiani, 40, and Simonetta Visconti, 30, Italy's two leading fashion designers (his specialty, daytime and cocktail wear; hers, play clothes and tailored suits); both for the second time; after years of friendly professional rivalry; in Rome...
Cause for Worry. The most elaborate show piece (cost $750) was a silver-white evening dress, which Rome's Alberto Fabiani had lavishly embroidered with beads, buttons and tiny seashells. Fabiani also showed a shirtlike beach smock, in white and red cotton squares with a white pique collar, so long that it hides the bathing suit and so puffy that it resembles a maternity blouse. Other eye-catchers: the butterfly-winged cape which Princess Gabriella di Giardinelli ("Gabriellasport") designed for her yellow silk evening gown; a short evening dress of black lace on white organdie by the Fontana sisters...
...Fabiani hedging against the future? Later, at a lake resort, I talked to sleek, handsome Aldo d'Elia, Florence's Fascist "chief of cabinet" from, 1934 to 1944. D'Elia consoles himself that the Florentine public is as cynically volatile today as in Savonarola's time. D'Elia says: "Florence is a pagan city. The people are easily impassioned, caustic and fickle. They will one day treat their present rulers as they treated...