Word: pinza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stayed for 20 years, drawing raves with a clear, effortlessly powerful voice that made her a standout in an era of great Met sopranos, including Kirsten Flagstad and Lotte Lehmann. She also brought a lively offstage presence to U.S. opera-once, during a tour with Met Basso Ezio Pinza, she collected not only bouquets but also a $250,000 suit from Pinza's wife charging alienation of affections. "It's too full, my life," Rethberg said. "I just give and give...
...entertainment." No one exemplifies that early diagnosis more than Caldwell. Her success story is anything but logical or coherent. Her energy would be impressive for a basketball star; for a beach ball of a woman, it is phenomenal. Her friend Beverly Sills describes Sarah's voice as "Ezio Pinza imitating a woman," but she can sweet-talk almost anybody out of, and into, anything...
...role is the hot property of Finland's Martti Talvela, a huge (6 ft. 7 in., 260 Ibs.), nimble, running tackle of a man with an obsessed, Orson Wellesian face. At 39 he has a voice that may lack the steely edge of, say, Chaliapin, Kipnis or even Pinza but compensates with its oval warmth and human shadings. One never doubts that this Boris can be compassionate, a killer or mad. Accomplished without any personal padding of garment or rubberizing of the steps, Talvela's death-throes roll down the stairway from the throne has shocking impact...
...spectacular Met debut in the role of the aging Silva, Ruggero Raimondi, 28, strode the stage as if born to gray hair and villainy. A native of Bologna, Raimondi has been singing opera for only five years but his clean, coppery voice already suggests the younger Ezio Pinza...