Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally, Ebe was to have come to the U.S. in 1940 (she had a Met contract), but couldn't leave Italy after the war broke out. She likes Italian opera best, has the power and range, but "not the temperament" to sing Wagner. Says she: "It is dangerous for an Italian to attempt Wagner. I do not feel heroic...
When plump little Italian Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani walked onstage for her New York debut, she got an unexpected ovation. It overwhelmed her so much she could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could...
...cover its overloaded agenda before Christmas, although lights burned late in the Palais de Chaillot (see cut). So it was agreed that this would be Session Three, Part One, and that Part Two would convene on April i at Flushing Meadow. Business carried over to April will include the Italian colonies, Franco Spain, the proposed U.N. guard force, and the treatment of Indians in South Africa...
...poor Italian immigrants, Bramuglia had come up the hard way. Somehow he got himself through school, and eventually earned a law degree, but as a lawyer he scarcely made expenses. Until he met Colonel Peron in 1943, he worked at a civil-service job that paid 300 pesos ($90) a month. He picked up another 900 pesos as lawyer for the railway workers' unions. Colonel Peron, as Secretary of Labor & Social Welfare, hired Bramuglia as an adviser. Soon he was deep in poli tics. In 1945, he landed in the fat post of Governor of Buenos Aires. The next...
...agreeing to lend the little David as a token of "friendly feelings" toward the U.S., Italy's Fine Arts Commission broke a Mussolini-enacted law against exporting Italian art treasures. Never before has a Michelangelo statue-actually carved by Michelangelo, that is-been exhibited...