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Occasionally a lion roared; silver-haired Tenor Giovanni Martinelli roared louder. The summer opera season in Cincinnati's Zoo (with Ponchielli's 66-year-old La Gioconda) was on. Except for four operatic finds, it was much like other seasons. The four finds (chosen from 3,000 operatic aspirants recruited through nationwide radio auditions): Nan Merriman, a dimpled, 22-year-old brunette from California, who made her debut disguised in the stage wrinkles of old La Cieca in La Gioconda; Dorothy Ann Short, a 19-year-old University of Washington coed; Max Condon, a six-foot-two tenor...
...refloating brought him a fat contract, hoisted him into the opera management business for good. Last year he received his most prestigious appointment: as managing director of the white-elephantine Chicago Opera. He and Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, artistic director, put on a season that lopped the annual loss from...
...couldn't quite see all of Martinelli as he was engaged in his gab-fest with the high muckymuck, so I looked around for a more satisfactory vantage point. Besides, I hate standing up. I finally saw a little nook half-hidden almong some pieces of scenery, and I figured I could sit in it and see the whole opera. I maneuvered myself through the throng and crawled into the opening that led into my secluded box seat. Just as I put my foot down on the last step the lights flared up on the stage and I heard...
...first act ended and the crowd applauded vigorously. I was amazed at the way Martinelli and the other singer took their curtain calls. They seemed as happy as kids. (I'll admit that when I was a "kid" and an eminent actor in my own small way I was usually not happy in a jovial sense when the curtain come down but rather happy in the sense of being-relieved. However, it is true that my curtain calls were rare, and besides, "happy as kids" makes a pleasant if inaccurate simile.) They danced around and grinned at each other...
Composer Yon, who thought up the game five years ago while summering in his native Italian Alps, has shot 9 holes in 19, claims to be world's champion by virtue of victories over such experts as Cinemactor Roland Young, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, various members of the Italian royal family...