Word: fieriest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass junket to the gayer clime of Hades and, incidentally, to rescue Eurydice. In hell, confusion is confounded by folderol, but finally-with the help of what is probably the fieriest cancan ever written-everyone agrees on a highly satisfactory and immoral solution...
Forza had not been sung at the Met in eight years, and there were good reasons. Even among Italian operas, the plot is a wildly improbable one, and the whole opera runs for 3½ hours. Yet it has one of Verdi's fieriest scores, some of his most memorable arias, e.g., the soprano's Pace, Pace and the old Caruso-De Luca specialty, Solenne in Quest' Ora (Swear in This Hour). Director Bing, who has already restyled Verdi's Don Carlo, Aida and Rigoletto-and who wants "very much to have in this house...
Puccini: Tosco (Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando Borgioli; chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Rome, conducted by Oliviero de Fabritis; Victor Treasury series, 4 sides LP). Puccini's fieriest, reissued in the fine, robust performance that was a pre-LP highlight. Recording: good...