Word: madama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, more than 800,000 mourners had filed into Turin's rococo Palazzo Madama, past coffins that held the remains of Italy's greatest team. Sobbed nine-year-old Luigi Foschi: "The champions are dead. What shall...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Licia Albanese and James Melton in Madama Butterfly...
...Puccini was no stranger to Broadway. He borrowed from Belasco plays for Madama Butterfly and The Girl of the Golden West...
...matter too much if latecomers missed the first act, or spent the last act in the bar on the Grand Tier floor-the real attraction was the second-act "Bell Song," a coloratura showpiece and practically Pons's theme song. Lakmé itself is a kind of earlier Madama Butterfly-involving the love of an Indian priest's daughter for an officer in the British Army-but far inferior in libretto and music...
...Yorkers, who are used to a rich musical diet, were not noticeably impressed by the bill-of-fare. Yet on one night last week Manhattan musicgoers, if they liked opera, had a choice of Madama Butterfly at the Met or Eugen Onegin at the City Center in its first New York performance in eleven years. If they wanted symphony, they could hear their own Philharmonic-with Violinist Mischa Elman-at Carnegie Hall, or hear Serge Koussevitsky's famed Boston Symphony, playing an "overflow" concert, one of four performances the Bostonians played in New York last week...