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...decision, the father of a 17-month-old girl, whose mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness, too. "As far as men are concerned," she announced, "I'm through. Men-their tactics and deceitfulness! Even...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Ferruccio Tagliavini and Pia Tassinari...
Mozart: Requiem (Pia Tassinari, Ebe Stignani, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo; orchestra and chorus of the E.I.A.R., Victor de Sabata conducting; Cetra-Soria, 16 sides). Mozart began writing this masterpiece in the last few months of his life, for another's memorial. Finished by his pupil Sussmayer, it has since served well as Mozart's own memorial. This is a recording of the magnificent performance in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome on the 150th anniversary of his death (1941). Recording: good...
...Ferro" and Pia have been singing and murmuring to each other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...
Last week a capacity crowd sludged through the snow to hear Tagliavini as Cavaradossi and his wife in the title role of Tosca. It was opera, full-flavored Italian style. Pia, revealing dramatic skill, a tender middle voice, and disturbingly razorish top range, was roundly applauded even in arias where critics found her wanting. Tagliavini was in top form. Between them, husband & wife managed to carry off a production that was closer to first rate than the Met usually achieves these lackluster days...