Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed, subject to Senate approval, a bill legalizing the immigration of 1) teenage Giovanni (Johnny) Camera and Anthony di Ina, troopship stowaways, 2) 31-year-old Masuyo Sudo Cromely, Japanese wife of a U.S. newsman, 3) 37-year-old Virginia Casardi, U.S.-born spouse of an Italian diplomat. Sent back to the Immigration and Naturalization Committee for further study was a similar "request of asylum" bill for three Russian stowaways, all adults...
...dozen of the Metropolitan's once-great singers went to Manhattan's Town Hall last week. Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca, onetime star of the Met's "Golden Age." It was his first Manhattan recital in 29 years. Said De Luca afterward: "Even before I began to sing they make a big ovation. They don't even know can I still sing. They are saying...
...Bomb-ravaged Berlin is having a brilliant opera season this year. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Magic Flute, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Otello and Rigoletto, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, Hindemith's Cardillac and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. There will be no Wagner this winter...
...just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...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...