Word: ottavio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...
...snapped pictures of the rally. Catholic Action speakers frequently engage Communist leaders in public debates. One of the most tireless debaters is a Dominican, Father Felix Morlion, who challenged Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti to a debate over Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Togliatti sent a substitute, Communist Senator Ottavio Pastore. When Pastore was through, Father Morlion quietly mounted the rostrum beneath a huge portrait of Togliatti and smilingly proceeded to answer the Senator's ranting. "To conquer misery," Father Morlion concluded, "it is not necessary to suppress religion...
...exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera, but you couldn't always hear him. And Rose Bampton's Donna Anna, a difficult role to be sure, was still a disappointment...
...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...
...Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera has heard in years. Eight years of Hitlerism had not destroyed the old Austro-German tradition of stagecraft; Don Giovanni had been so painstakingly rehearsed that every part...