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...Stella's fans booed Callas, were drowned out by the claque and became so enraged that they started a slugging match that sent two combatants to jail. Although the La Scala claque never shouts at or boos a performer, some claques do; at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the local claque decided that it did not like the stringy-voiced tenor, refunded him his money and in subsequent performances all but booed him from the stage...
Upon arriving at her summer villa near Parma, the Metropolitan Opera's latest girl wonder, pretty, Pennsylvania-born Soprano Anna Moffo, was asked by a spokesman for several Italian opera companies to restrain the Italian press from swooning in print over "L'Esotica's" glamorous charms-the home-grown prima donnas are hitting high "C with jealousy. But Anna only shrugged: "Who ever heard of telling the press what to say? I'm not in the business of smoothing the ruffled feathers of other divas! Opera is a dog-eat-dog business...
...Armada's plan for the assault was to sail from Lisbon to Dunkirk, pick up the Duke of Parma's powerful army, toughened by the Low Country wars, and invade England. But, astoundingly, no provision had been made for getting the army aboard the Armada's vessels. The Duke of Parma had no deep-water port, and Spain's fighting ships could not get within miles of Dunkirk's beach. Parma had only a few rotting barges to bridge the distance. But as things turned out, the Duke never had his chance to drown because...
...second volume of the Putnam edition (the first was issued last spring, and four more will appear at half-year intervals) takes up the rake's progress when he is 23. Casanova has joined a runaway beauty named Henriette, set her up in a lavish apartment in Parma. In three months, he remarks mildly, "the only pleasure we took out of doors was a drive outside of the city when the weather was fine...
...entered the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma and began studying voice. In 1940, when she was 18 and on a Christmas visit to her aunt in Pesaro, she got her big break: an audition with famed Soprano Carmen Melis, venerated in Italy as one of the great Puccini singers of all time, and then a teacher at the Rossini Conservatory. Melis took on Tebaldi as a fulltime pupil, made her into the kind of singer she is today. Melis worked on voice placement, taught Tebaldi the piano singing to which her voice is naturally adapted. As models, Melis pointed...