Word: scotty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan Opera Company. One night in 1925 an odd thing happened to him. He was sitting in his dressing room after the second act of Verdi's Falstaff-his aria, "E sogno," had ended the act. He heard the house applauding but thought they wanted the Falstaff-Antonio Scotti. The call boy said it was for him and as he hurried back he could hear them shouting his name. For the first time a U. S. singer, relatively obscure, had brought down the Metropolitan. After that, Baritone Tibbett was a public personage...