Word: scala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opera as a fine romantic tenor, if not a great one. But in tenor-impoverished Italy (most of the good ones have come to the U.S.), Conley is a hero. Ever since he bounced a ringing D flat above high C off the ceiling of Milan's La Scala in I Puritani three seasons ago, the Italians have hardly been able to get enough...
...enough people to permit a take between $15,000 and $20,000 for each concert. His other plans are grandly hazy. He is tempted by a $250,000 offer to tour in Argentina. He sometimes speaks vaguely of accepting an offer to appear at Milan's famed La Scala, where he would like to sing Andrea Chenier, one of the twelve operatic roles he has learned. He is even vaguer about the great day when he may be ready to sing at the Met (top fee: $1,000 a performance...
...Italy last week, the Russians were all over the place. Ballerina Galina Ulanova (TIME, June 25) had another frantic success at Milan's La Scala. Romans were astonished at the formidable power and technique of Pianist Emil Ghilels, 35. And in Florence for the first time, an audience of 2,700 heard a 42-year-old violinist, now rated the equal of Heifetz, Menuhin, Szigeti and Milstein. His name: David Oistrakh...
...parallel. Near the front line, she "prayed fervently for a set of bulletproof undies." At Pusan, she tried on a Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also took a jet plane ride arranged by U.S.A.F. Colonel H. A. Schmid, who, gurgled Penny, was "the smartest and the best-looking and the youngest colonel I've ever...
...Some Milan critics thought she had left her voice in the U.S. when this Met soprano returned to La Scala after eleven years...