Word: meneghinis
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Oldtimers at La Scala pronounced her singing sensational. All Milan has been talking this winter about Maria Meneghini Callas. This powerful new dramatic soprano is an American-born singer who has never sung a note in the land of her birth. Her parents, who came from Greece, took her on a lengthy visit to the old country when she was 13, and she has been in the U.S. only once since then...
Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...