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...other performers, notably Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato, backed her superbly, gave old Norma the kind of urgency it has not known in decades. The orchestra, trained and brilliantly conducted by New York's young (37) Nicola Rescigno, gave every note the vividness of Technicolor. Chicago's top-hatted, diamond-sprinkled audience enveloped Soprano Callas in a hailstorm of applause. To land such a diva was a major operatic coup for Chicago. Maria had left her native Manhattan to live in Greece when she was 13, by 1948 was engaged by La Scala. Married to an Italian millionaire (building...
...voice, rave through a couple of bloody hallucinations, and finally fall dead down a flight of stairs. Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, the part was taken by Jerome Hines, 32, the first U.S.-born basso to try it there, and the season's fourth basso (after Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, George London, Cesare Siepi) to sing Boris...
Most impressive singing actor on the stage was a Metropolitan debutant. Italy's Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951), who drew the meaty role of Mephistopheles. Elegantly brandishing his black sword-cane, he swaggered and leered his satanic way about the stage, and when he flourished his red satin cape, the villagers hit the floor like a wheatfield in a high wind...
Died. Frederick G. (for Gunn) Katzmann, 78, prosecutor in the 1921 murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti; of a heart attack, following his collapse in the same courthouse where the famed case was tried; in Roslindale, Mass. Two years after the trial, Attorney Katzmann returned to private practice, but so bitter were the feelings aroused among the defendants' left-wing champions that Boston police maintained a 24-hour guard at his home until 1933, six years after the convicted pair were finally executed...
...audience glittered, for San Francisco takes first nights with silk-and-sable seriousness. But the best show was onstage. The Devil (Italian Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) was gusty enough to shake the chandeliers. Visiting Met Stars Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce (as Marguerite and Faust) brought down the house with their prison scene. Nonetheless, there was a sense of melancholy on both sides of the footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept...