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Practical Payment. It was Merola's personal taste and his astute judgment of his audiences that brought to the San Francisco stage such rarities as Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much...
Freshman Football--Major football numerals--1956--David H. Bodiker, Russell E. Burgess, Marion A. Cheek, Bainbridge Coon, Warren K. Cooper, Joseph F. Crehore, William E. Crosby, 3d, Alan H. Culbert, James E. Donaghy, James M. Fitzgibbons, John S. Getch, Richard V. Giordano, Lawrence S. Halpern, Thomas D. Jones, Thomas A. Kahrl...
Contino likes to tell how his father came to the U.S. from Sicily and set up as a butcher in Fresno. (At this point, he usually produces papa, and papa sings in Italian.) His mother's brother, christened Raffaele Giordano but better known as Young Corbett III, onetime world welterweight champ (1933), thought young Dick would make a good fighter; he has big hands. But from twelve on, Dick has wanted to sing and play the accordion...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducts an all-Italian program (Giordano, Busoni, Respighi...
First-night attendance at Giordano's little-known work was small: the company lost $5,000 on the performance. But thanks to Cincinnati's loyal music lovers, the "Zoopera" could afford such losses. Last winter, after the opera had accumulated a deficit of some $44,000, Cincinnatians subscribed to a whopping Fine Arts Fund to support the summer series along with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum. The opera...