Word: rovigo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the months just before and after the end of World War II, Tebaldi and her mother shuttled from one small town to another. During that period, Tebaldi made her operatic debut (as Helen of Troy in Boito's Mefistofele) in Rovigo; on the way there, fighter planes strafed her train. After Toscanini hired her for the Scala opening in 1946, she smoothly embarked on the international operatic circuit. In her rise to the top she has experienced only one real failure-a performance of Traviata at La Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high...
...Russian manufacture. The message: "Many messages but no hope. For 13 years we have been working as slaves in mines. These men have slit eyes. One dies like a dog. We are in the Polar Arctic. We are 300 Italian soldiers from Salara, Friuli, Verona, Padua, Rovigo. God is our hope of salvation...
Italy. In the home of the largest Communist Party outside the Iron Curtain, 3,000 party members in the deep Red city of Rovigo (pop. 14,600) alone reportedly turned in their membership cards last week. Defections were reported all over the country. Pietro Nenni, leader of Italy's fellow traveling Socialists, announced: "For the first time in many years there is deep disagreement between us and the Communists." Connoisseurs of his serpentine mind were divided over whether he was capable of honest feeling about suffering anywhere, or just trying to save his own hide in the Communist wreckage...
...fought off rescuers, and standing with famished, snapping dogs and starved, dazed cattle, insisted on hanging on to little patches of still-dry ground. Around them eddied the murky water, bearing straw from the harvest, pieces of furniture, bobbing coffins released from cemeteries. Near Rovigo, a truck loaded with refugees was swept off the highway by a jet of water from a bursting dike; 33 of 40 passengers were drowned...
...daughter of an orchestral cellist, Tebaldi always took a singing career for granted. Five years ago a scout from Milan's La Scala heard her operatic debut in Rovigo, near Venice, signed her at once. Since then, she has been one of La Scala's youngest and most promising stars...