Word: scala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashore, the Italians came off less happy; at the Municipal Theater a comedia company flopped in two Pirandello plays. But this week there might be a comeback ; the Italians intended to set up their portable stadium before the massive, stolid Treasury Ministry, parade La Scala stars in La Traviata...
Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
...days from date. Toscanini had a sentimental memory of Lucerne: it was the city where he had conducted the night before war was declared in 1939. But sentiment had a rider. Toscanini wanted a guarantee of 90,000 francs ($21,060) to help rebuild Milan's bombed La Scala Opera House...
Swiss tourist offices stayed open 16 hours a day to sell concert tickets; Swiss railroads hurriedly scheduled special late trains to carry concertgoers back to outlying cantons. In the required five days, the opera house was sold out. Toscanini arrived from Milan with the 112-piece La Scala Orchestra for his first European concert outside Italy since the war. Lucerne heard the Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Debussy he had prepared for Paris and London...
...made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...