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Neither Kirsten Flagstad nor the Italian cops knew what to expect. In Milan last week 200 plainclothesmen were sprinkled through the audience in famed La Scala opera house, and outside, strong police squads stood ready. There had been hints of trouble. The former chief of staff of the Milanese partisan organization demanded that the performance of Tristan und Isolde be canceled. He objected not to Soprano Flagstad's much-criticized war reputation-but to the fact that the opera would be sung in German...
...great night. In the pit, Conductor Victor de Sabata had critics going back to Toscanini for comparisons. And on stage, 51-year-old Kirsten Flagstad, who had never before sung at the Milan opera house, thrilled the audience with the range, clarity and richness of her tones. Cried one critic: "This performance will go down in the annals as one of La Scala's greatest...
...full of golden promises; Europe was full of needy stars. In Milan, in Vienna and in Paris, they signed up; they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
...Congress Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...
Hard Tack. In Milan, Italy, people got worried about their bread's strange texture, learned that hard-up bakers had stretched flour rations with marble dust...