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...word or a bow as they pass. Some of the youngsters recognize him and point him out to less knowing companions; even people who don't know him give him more than a passing glance, sensing that he is "somebody." He is indeed: he is Giovanni Martinelli, one of the great tenors...
Last week, during the intermission of Alcestis (see below), Tenor Martinelli, 66, was holding court as usual, elegant in evening clothes. He had a lot more to discuss with his friends and courtiers than old times at the Met. A man who still bubbles with force, Martinelli is lifting his voice in public again on TV programs, and having the time of his life. Says Martinelli: "Old tenors never die, they simply fade away...
After he sang an Italian song, Ideale, on a We the People program several weeks ago (honoring his old rival Caruso), a friend phoned to say, "That was a good record they put on for you last night." Martinelli took pleasure in setting him straight. "I can sing as well as I ever could," he insists-although "I would not say I could get through Otello or Aïda now." Those who heard him sing Ideale were surprised at the ease and quality of the old tenor robusto's voice. The catch, and the reason for his retirement...
...debut as Tosca in 1916, once said that Claudia "knew all of our stage tricks before she wore long skirts." She had a voice to match her acting: she could, and did, sing coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano parts with equal ease. In Buenos Aires one time, when Giovanni Martinelli momentarily lost his voice in the third act of Catalani's Loreley,* she carried off his tenor part as well...
Tenor Embrace. Standing between her mother & father after the encores, Anna Maria was embraced by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and heard Baritone Giuseppe de Luca call her voice "a divine instrument." Said the New York Times next day: "Some of the purest, loveliest sounds that have been heard all season...