Word: libera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bittersweet aria, I Only Lasted One Day in Frankfurt, and explains that because she found it a gloomy, unfriendly place, she returned to New York without having stepped foot on the Frankfurt stage. The audition now begins. Beverly walks to the front of the stage and sings Sempre Libera from La Traviata. Applause is heard from the pit, and it is obvious that she has finally captivated the City Opera...
With so many high-riding executives, Poland is considering retiring 10% of its motorized fleet and chauffeurs. Bulgaria has decreed strict restrictions on who can use official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party...
...rehearsals he is sometimes the ardent young Alfredo, singing the aria De' miei bollenti spiriti, sometimes the gravely dignified Germont, making his moving plea to Violetta-Pura sic-come un angelo. In the most fascinating section of all, the old man launches into Violetta's famed Sempre libera, sounding hoarse, wildly off key, but somehow convincing in the aria's feverish abandon...