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...Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is long-legged, sardonic Ezio Pinza. Last week, as Basso Pinza was plowing through a concert in Corpus Christi, Tex., he noticed that a small boy in the front row was waggling his foot...
...those who had tickets clasped tightly in hand stood a chance of being admitted to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Nowhere else in the world was there such a line-up of singers as the one announced for that evening. It included Flagstad, Melchior, Rethberg, Ponselle, Tibbett, Martinelli, Pinza, Crooks, Rothier, Nino Martini. Like the audience, the singers were there for only one purpose: to pay homage to Lucrezia Bori who was singing her farewell on the Metropolitan stage...
...Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...Exceptions were the few imported singers with whom Manager Paul Longone bolstered his list. The best of these: Lotte Lehmann, Greta Stückgold, Edith Mason, John Charles Thomas, Ezio Pinza...
...barber sat in the audience at the San Francisco Opera House one night last week, beaming as if there were nothing in the world which pleased him more than the comical antics in The Barber of Seville. He beamed at Tito Schipa as the love-smitten Count, at Ezio Pinza as the crafty music-master, at Louis D'Angelo as the doddering old doctor, at Richard Bonelli who flourished razor and brush with the ease of a professional. The little Italian barber had reason to be pleased that night. In the company of such experienced singers his 22-year...