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...Some Milan critics thought she had left her voice in the U.S. when this Met soprano returned to La Scala after eleven years...
Shadow Boxing From Milan's stadiumlike Velodromo Vigorelli last week fluttered the flags of 22 European nations-including the Soviet Union. For the first time in 30 years, Russian leather-pushers were going to fight under Western rules in the European Amateur Boxing championships. Or were they...
Homecoming at La Scala From a box near the stage, one admirer threw a red rose. From the rest of the house welled warm, welcoming applause. After eleven triumphant years in the New World, Licia Albanese, 37, one of the Metropolitan Opera's top sopranos, had returned to Milan's La Scala...
...second and third acts, Albanese gave Milan more fine acting. Holding Butterfly's son in her arms, she sang her anguished farewell aria, dropped to her knees, got back up again, never let the three-year-old out of her arms, never lost a note. Albanese was pleased with La Scala's realistic casting of the youngster: "Finally I have a child the right age." At the Met, because of child-labor regulations, she has to struggle with seven-year-olds...
...away from her opening night still grumbling a bit that she didn't sing loud enough. In her second performance, Albanese took the hint, turned up the volume. To help, she parked the three-year-old on a cushion, center stage, instead of holding him in her arms. Milan was overjoyed...