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There little Caroline-looking like a Sargent painting come to life-appeared in native costume and a kerchief, and kept time to the music with a little tambourine. And back at the villa, serenaders filled the night sky with their songs-Torna a Surriento, 0 sole mio, and Maria, Marl. There was even a lullaby composed just for Caroline, called Tarantella Ravellese. It lost something in translation but nothing in sentiment: A welcome like this we From Ravello must give to you, Returning to America, and happy You remember Italy...
Singing magnificently in her rich, bronzelike voice, she began with O del mio dolce ardor, by Gluck, went on to Quella fiamma che m'accende, by Benedetto Marcello, Ständchen and Zueignung, by Richard Strauss. Invitation au Voyage and Le Manoir de Rosamonde, by Henri du Pare, Boatmen's Dance, by Aaron Copland. Out in the Fields with God, by William Dawson...
Fearless and teal, pious and pitying, cunning and courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
...without saying who was to hear her. As she started to sing, she noticed a "slim, good-looking man with salt-and-pepper hair eating a club sandwich." Midway through the audition, the slim man abandoned his sandwich, excitedly pushed the accompanist aside and rushed Leontyne through Pace, pace mio Dio! from La Forza del Destino. "I then learned," says she, "that it was Herbert von Karajan...
...house in the famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...