Word: pinza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stokowski, Rodzinski, Walter, and Damrosch--at different times, of course. It has Heifetz, Rubenstein, Pinza, Piatigorsky, and other artists. It has Vaughn Monroe and Harry James. It has an insipid plot that runs contrapuntal to Beethoven's "Fifth" and Tehaikovsky's "Piano Concerto"--you know ... "Tonight we love...
...trappings. Replacing the dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will be done for the first time with screen projections, an economy trick borrowed from the New York City Opera Co. Most of the glamorous old stars-Pinza, Pons, Traubel, Melchior-are back, and 14 new singers, six of them homegrown...
...second act of La Bohême, the cafe scene, where a cart filled with toys is dragged onstage, followed by laughing children. One of the kids was obviously more taken than the others by the singing of famed Metropolitan Basso Ezio Pinza, who was playing Colline. The admiration came naturally: it was his six-year-old daughter, Claudia...
...time that Claudia was ever allowed on an opera stage with her father. But as a child, she traveled with him on his tours, listened to him from opera-house wings, dressed up in his paints and costumes. That touring ended the day daddy made the tabloid headlines. Mme. Pinza sued Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg for $250,000 for alienation of affections. She later withdrew the suit, but divorced Ezio and took Claudia with her to Italy...
Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski...