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...colorful night marked Callas' debut as a stage director and the inauguration of Europe's newest opera house, Turin's opulent Teatro Regio, which has been rebuilt at a cost of $13 million to replace the original two-century-old theater that was destroyed by fire 37 years ago. Still, no one doubted that it was La Callas, not il teatro, who was the true star of the occasion. The dazzling opening-night audience included luminaries like President Giovanni Leone, but it was "Mar-i-a!" that the crowd shouted...
Parma, birthplace of Toscanini, takes such a fierce pride in the standards of its Teatro Regio that at one time or another Parmensi have booed virtually all the big names in Italian opera. "Go back to Rome, fatty!" shouted the galleries after the late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost...
...achieve it. Famed Baritone Tito Gobbi fell so far short in a performance of The Barber of Seville that the opera was booed to a halt after the second act. Newspapers the length of Italy argued the Parmensi's right to sound off, and last week 80 Teatro Regio regulars announced a temporary truce. They gave a grand reconciliation party in the Cafe Verdi to soothe harried Conductor Basile. But it was still uncertain whether opera in Parma would survive its own fans. Said one of the unrepentant faithful: "We're reconciling with Basile now so that...
...group of Stella's fans booed Callas, were drowned out by the claque and became so enraged that they started a slugging match that sent two combatants to jail. Although the La Scala claque never shouts at or boos a performer, some claques do; at the Teatro Regio in Parma, the local claque decided that it did not like the stringy-voiced tenor, refunded him his money and in subsequent performances all but booed him from the stage...
...Milan's La Scala, Naples' San Carlo, the Rome Opera, Venice's La Fenice, the Comu-nale of Florence, Bologna and Cagliari, Genoa's Carlo Felice, Turin's Regio, Trieste's Verdi, Verona's Arena and Palermo's Massimo...