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...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...long time. Nearly every classic Italian comic opera has a basso buffo, a comic bass. He wears a false nose, false belly, or both, and is not expected to have much of a voice. Fourteen years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted Milan's great La Scala opera, he asked one of his young bassos, Salvatore Baccaloni, to specialize in buffo roles, so that La Scala need not rely on rickety-voiced oldsters...
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting, with Linda Bruna Rasa, Luigi Marini and other singers; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Giordano's melodramatic, French-Revolutionary opera shows signs of coming back into U. S. favor. The present recording is rich in marinara sauce...
Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Enrico Molinari, Mercedes Capsir, Enzo de Muro Lomanto and other artists, with orchestra and chorus from the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Most popular of all melodious old-time Italian operas, lustily performed by some of Italy's lustiest lilters. Judicious pruning has spared all the best bits. Highlight: Soprano Capsir's "Mad Scene...