Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being challenged by an increased popular demand for the lighthearted operas of Mozart. Many suspected that this de mand for Mozart was really a demand for Ezio Pinza - the brawny, lusty-voiced, 52-year-old basso who sings the Mozart scores to a fare-ye-well. As Don Giovanni, Figaro and Sarastro (in The Magic Flute} the former Italian bicycle racer had be come the Met's most reliable attraction...
...France. Son of a millionaire (who was himself Minister of Finance), aristocratic, dictatorial Joseph Caillaux, in 1911, appeased Germany in a secret negotiation, ceding part of the French Congo to the Kaiser for a free French hand in Morocco, was forced to resign his premiership. Blazing because of Le Figaro's attacks on Caillaux and the public reprinting of their love letters, his second wife put five bullets into Le Figaro's Editor Gaston Calmette, was acquitted of murder in time to see her husband convicted of "dealing with the enemy" after World War I, jailed and banished...
...points of special eloquence. Of his reader he asks hard eye & ear work, but in the end the possible rewards may include, for instance, "the right frame of mind to listen to one of the greatest wonders achieved by human powers, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, with proper appreciation of its forms in sound...
...Paris' Figaro, a letter writer pleaded with U.S. soldiers: "We pray you refuse these monstrous prices which are the leftover of an odious black market whose death we want. . . . You may succeed better than...
...seemed to come from everywhere - even the telephone. By dialing INF-1, Parisians could hear a recorded summary of world and local news, brought up to date every hour. Underground news papers which had hidden in cellars and garrets came out in the sun. Some pre-conquest papers, including Figaro and Ce Soir, were revived. Many great names of the prewar French press were gone, the papers that had either sold out or submitted to the conqueror: Le Matin, Paris Soir, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre, Le Petit Parisien, forcibly taken over by the Germans, may be revived...