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...Vatican, after making a long study of the Knights and their modern works, decided that their resiliency and their good name would profit if some of the old privileges were taken away. More than a year after its first meeting (TIME. Jan. 28, 1952), a tribunal headed by Nicola Cardinal Canali. himself a Knight, quietly told the order to revise its constitution. The changes ordered: 1) some 20 "Professed" Knights, bound by religious vows, must start living something like the communal life of a religious order, 2) the higher degrees of Knights need no longer be of noble birth...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Victoria de los Angeles, Nicola Monti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni; Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Tullio Serafin; Victor, 3 LPs). A fine performance and elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
...Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
Malice Toward None. In Cleveland, when Barber Paul Pirosko sued for $5,000 damages from the man who called him a "butcher," Judge B. D. Nicola, a onetime butcher's apprentice, dismissed the case: "It takes no little skill to be a butcher...
...program called the newcomer a basso, and he looked like a big one. But San Francisco operagoers, knowing that there are no great dramatic bassos around these days, sat back to listen in medium apathy. Next thing they knew, they were on the edge of their seats. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni was giving them Boris Godunov at the top of its style...