Word: manina
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...ballads has worn his middle range to a thread. Though he squeezes out the necessary high notes, after a fashion, everything else is bad to the point of black comedy, from the flabby scooping in Donizetti's Una furtiva lagrima to the wimpy crooning in Puccini's Che gelida manina (real Italian tenors are not sensitive...
Even if freshmen arrive here determined to resist the lure of Harvard-think, they often find themselves giving in. Paul Manina "didn't go to all of that pep-rally stuff;" he's just not the type. But by the time the Yale game rolled around, "you feel some sort of weird school spirit whether you want to or not." With-Yalies around he "felt obligated to defend the school down the line, meaning every word...
...Manina's friend, Franklin, "can get quite defensive" if he hears fair Harvard belittled. "After a few drinks, you can build up intense hatred, even," he adds...
Even the great Caruso sometimes sang Rodolfo's Che gelida manina aria from La Bohème a halftone down from the high C that Puccini's score calls for-and Puccini wrote a letter saying he liked it better that way. But when Italy's beloved tenor Giuseppi Di Stefano showed up at La Scala to rehearse Rodolfo in a new production of La Boheme under Austria's Herbert von Kara Jan. he was stopped by La Scala's tearful manager. "Oh, dear Di Stefano," said the manager, "Von Karajan doesn't want...
Instead of booing, a packed house in Milan last week greeted Von Karajan with eloquent silence as he threaded his way through the orchestra. After the Che gelida manina aria, a few hisses mingled with the applause. Von Karajan's slightly Wagnerian notion of Puccini had the audience stunned at first, and La Scala's new second-act setting looked more like the Place de la Concorde than Boheme's little Left Bank square. Still, it was a gripping performance of a great opera, and Von Karajan was honored with 18 curtain calls. "Viva, Karajan!" and "Bravo...