Word: scala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said he would love to have all his admissions folders read for Christmas. He dreams of being able to go to La Scala, the opera house in Milan, for its winter season, however...
...Kennedy Center's venturesome executive director, Martin Feinstein, whose previous imports have included La Scala and West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, the Vienna visit turns out to be the final coup of his tenure. Internal conflicts have led the center's board to redefine Feinstein's status as of Nov. 30, retaining him thereafter only in the less powerful role of director of opera and ballet. The impact of this change on future visits by foreign companies is unclear...
...competition in nearby Reggio Emilia, he was awarded an engagement in a local production of La Bohème. Within the span of three weeks, he married Adua and sang his first Rodolfo. His debut led to other bookings in Italy and, eventually, at minor houses all over Europe. La Scala offered him a job as a house stand-by for all its tenor roles, but he turned it down: "I thought to myself, when I sing at La Scala I want to come in through the principals' entrance...
After Australia, Pavarotti was ready for a string of major debuts: La Scala in 1965, San Francisco in 1967, the Metropolitan in 1968. Although his Met engagement, like most of the others, was in his lucky opera, La Bohème, he caught Hong Kong flu and had to withdraw halfway through the second performance. It took him three years to overcome that anticlimactic beginning at the house. But when he did, in a production of The Daughter of the Regiment with Sutherland, he set New York on its critical ear with a spectacular series of nine high...
...than not though, a photographic sight helps explain a sound. A line like "Can Grande's grin like Tommy Cochran's" is meaningless without the knowledge that Tommy Cochran was "a kid" Pound knew as a youth, and without an image of the statue Can Grande della Scala in Verona. The statue and the grin are here...