Word: reggiani
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...
Debutasters rated both Tenor Laholm and Soprano Reggiani seaworthy, if not cup-defending, additions to the Metropolitan fleet...