Word: profundo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barefoot Soprano Patrice Munsel, 39, sashayed out in a pair of gold lace pajamas with an emerald on her big toe. Brava! But Munsel, who admits her pj's are not for sleeping, saved the real treat for retreat: a peekaboo backline, cut clear down to her basso profundo...
...case anyone has been in hiding for the last two years, Beyond The Fringe is a series of 20-odd bits; many just acted out shaggy-dog jokes that set up a punch line. Three pansies don yellow rain bonnets and finally record basso profundo--a rugged TV ad for "the Man's cigarette." Other skits are extended and often scathing parodies like the first act closer, a merciless debunking of Britain's heroic World War II effort Listening to Dame Myra Hess (a scraggly gray wig accomplishes this transformation) play the moonlight sonata in those courageous British Museum Concerts...
Millionaire Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni finally had a feather in his cap that wasn't macaroni. Achieving the "fondest dream" of his 70 years, would-be Basso Profundo Buitoni hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and packed it with friends and employees from his Hackensack, N.J., headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Guests: Soprano Leontyne Price, Basso Profundo Charlton Heston...
...eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably...