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...expect to keep doing Broadway musicals forever, though. There's a chance I may do a movie. What I'd really like to do is get sufficient preparation to do concert singing and maybe opera." So Gil may perhaps wind up having followed the reverse path of stars like Pinza and Traubel...
...rehearsal time, bad weather, bad acoustics). Concerts have dwindled from 65 in 1939 to 24 in 1962, attendance from 375,500 in 1939 to 194,500 in 1962, while the cost of the cheapest tickets has gone up from 250 to 750. Outstanding musical personalities have drawn remarkable crowds: Pinza (27,500), Belafonte (25,000), Joan Sutherland (over 20,000). No one expects Van Cliburn's 1963 opening-night figure of 14,000 to be topped this season. The concerts run an annual deficit of $80,000 to $100,000, but that is a minor problem as long...
...year's high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over 25,000 fans...
...most, has almost a baritone's quality; at his best Corelli uses it with an animal vitality and drive that leave no audience bored. In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: "I attract mostly young, very beautiful girls...
...Pinza Appeal. As for Tenor Corelli, he came onstage dressed in the velvet tunic and tights that display his most famous asset: the legs that have earned him the Milan nickname of "Golden Calves" ("I just love Franco," says Leontyne Price. "He has such gorgeous legs"). Moreover, the golden calves support a 6 ft. 2 in., 180-lb. frame and a classically handsome head that qualify Corelli as the best-looking hunk of tenor now singing.* In his Met debut he demonstrated that he also has a voice. Somewhat tight at the beginning of the evening, it loosened...