Word: gelida
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...belting ballads has worn his middle range to a thread. Though he squeezes out the necessary high notes, after a fashion, everything else is bad to the point of black comedy, from the flabby scooping in Donizetti's Una furtiva lagrima to the wimpy crooning in Puccini's Che gelida manina (real Italian tenors are not sensitive...
Even the great Caruso sometimes sang Rodolfo's Che gelida manina aria from La Bohème a halftone down from the high C that Puccini's score calls for-and Puccini wrote a letter saying he liked it better that way. But when Italy's beloved tenor Giuseppi Di Stefano showed up at La Scala to rehearse Rodolfo in a new production of La Boheme under Austria's Herbert von Kara Jan. he was stopped by La Scala's tearful manager. "Oh, dear Di Stefano," said the manager, "Von Karajan doesn't want...
Instead of booing, a packed house in Milan last week greeted Von Karajan with eloquent silence as he threaded his way through the orchestra. After the Che gelida manina aria, a few hisses mingled with the applause. Von Karajan's slightly Wagnerian notion of Puccini had the audience stunned at first, and La Scala's new second-act setting looked more like the Place de la Concorde than Boheme's little Left Bank square. Still, it was a gripping performance of a great opera, and Von Karajan was honored with 18 curtain calls. "Viva, Karajan!" and "Bravo...
...Anything Goes (RCA Camden), coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound on it is as fascinating as the musical...
...last week, the young Irishman said: "Sure and I haven't done so bad." For his first radio appearance, the sponsoring Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. filled Carnegie Hall with bigwigs of business and music. Lynch sang such McCormack stock in trade as Macushla, Neapolitan Love Song and Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's La Bohème -and his voice sounded very nearly as clean and sweet, his Irish legato as rippling as McCormack...