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Word: scala (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Dubinsky-with one surprising variation. There is plenty of union activity, in a manner of speaking, but it generally seems to be of the kind that takes place between guys and dolls. The organizer, for instance, spends most of his time snuffling after his sexy young wife (Gia Scala) in an unpleasantly vulgar manner. The patronizing assumption seems to be that working people are always crude, and that leads to the soupy conclusion that crudity is therefore a virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Even before Pinza got out of the army at 27, he won a chance to sing the Count des Grieux in Manon in Rome. After that, his career picked up a dizzying momentum. Toscanini invited him to sing at La Scala, where he scored such a hit in Boito's Nerone that in 1926 Metropolitan Opera Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Basso | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...ground through parliamentary machinery, virtually every musician and official of an opera-owning town began to berate the government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crisis in Italy | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...Audit in Paradise. The real issue was not top talent or a top house like La Scala. Virtually all opera companies outside the U.S. are publicly subsidized (London's Covent Garden gets $700,000 annually). La Scala's $1,200,000 subsidy is not out of line considering its box-office take of $2,000,000 and its ambitious program: 180 annual performances of 30 different operas, including eight new productions and four premiered works, plus concerts and ballets. More extravagant was the $1,200,000 subsidy to the Rome Opera in 1955, when it took in only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crisis in Italy | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crisis in Italy | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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