Word: gobbi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody knows the operas of Verdi and Puccini by heart, and where youngsters pack the galleries instead of going to football games, the "listenable" is not easy to achieve. Tenors Corelli and Del Monaco, Sopranos Callas, Tebaldi and Stella, among others, have failed to achieve it. Famed Baritone Tito Gobbi fell so far short in a performance of The Barber of Seville that the opera was booed to a halt after the second act. Newspapers the length of Italy argued the Parmensi's right to sound off, and last week 80 Teatro Regio regulars announced a temporary truce. They...