Word: ottavio
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...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...
...atque Vale. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Undertaker Ottavio Caratozzollo delivered his granddaughter, a glb. girl, a few feet from the embalmed body of Frank Lo-Verso, whose favorite remark had been, "When I die, a baby will be born to take my place." Copstretician. In Manhattan, Patrol man Francis Devlin, in his 19th year on the force, delivered his sixth baby...
Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...
Pompous Beniamino Gigli was better as Don Ottavio; Elisabeth Rethberg sang primly as Donna Elvira, Editha Fleischer prettily as the peasant Zerlina. Credit for a satisfying performance, however, belonged not so much to the singers as to Conductor Tullio Serafin, who gave the score a glancing, crackling charm...