Word: rescigno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Raffaello de Banfield: Lord Byron's Love Letter (Astrid Varnay. Gertrude Ribla, Mario Carlin. Nicoletta Carruba; Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome, conducted by Nicola Rescigno; RCA Victor). An adventurous musical reading of Tennessee Williams' curdled little tale about a New Orleans lady of reduced circumstances who supports herself and her granddaughter, illegitimately descended from Lord Byron, by displaying a love letter she received from Byron in the "gold and azure days'" of their love affair. Italian Composer Banfield's score offers some green and willowy moments of vocal beauty, but its lush-styled orchestration is finally...
...mixture of big money and priceless glamour makes tricky chemistry. Last February Managers Carol Fox and Lawrence V. Kelly, both 29, and Artistic Director Nicola Rescigno tangled in a struggle for power-and Chicago's other musical movers and shakers joined in behind the scenes. Last week, after minuets of mediation, largos of litigation and concertos of comment, the Lyric was ordered into receivership (the receiver: Chicago Bar Association President Augustine J. Bowe). with its assets and liabilities probably to be assigned to a new corporation called Opera Theater Association, heavily backed by Carol Fox's friends...
...other performers, notably Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato, backed her superbly, gave old Norma the kind of urgency it has not known in decades. The orchestra, trained and brilliantly conducted by New York's young (37) Nicola Rescigno, gave every note the vividness of Technicolor. Chicago's top-hatted, diamond-sprinkled audience enveloped Soprano Callas in a hailstorm of applause. To land such a diva was a major operatic coup for Chicago. Maria had left her native Manhattan to live in Greece when she was 13, by 1948 was engaged by La Scala. Married to an Italian millionaire (building...