Word: katharina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher fiber than even the most famous of Italian shrews, Katharina of Padua. Snapped Angela: "I want no part of him, alive or dead...
Giannini's Shrew was a joint enterprise for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the city's Music-Drama Guild, whose singers sang without pay. Shrew Katharina was sung by Dorothy Short, an insurance agent, Husband Petruchio by Robert Kircher, a professional trombone player. "The important thing," said Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson, "was to give all segments of the community a chance to take part...