Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed as she was assisted to her dressing room: "It's dreadful having to sing with the thought that every time I open my mouth I might finish with an overripe tomato...
Following the Carteri incident, even veteran Soprano Renata Tebaldi lost her voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...
Erich W. Segal '58, Teaching Fellow in general Education, has recently returned from New York where his off-Broadway musical comedy "Sing Muse," received mixed reviews and is readying plans for a full-scale Broadway production...
Soprano Birgit Nilsson, scheduled to sing the role of Brünnhilde, had to bow out the evening before the performance. General Manager Rudolf Bing gave the role to Soprano Margaret Harshaw, who was to have sung Sieglinde; into the Sieglinde role went Soprano Gladys Kuchta. One of the Valkyries, Mezzo Gladys Kriese, was ill with tracheitis: her part went to Mezzo Ethel Greene, regularly a member of the chorus...
...raised, and the HST owners hope to use the stage it hides for live (non-vaudeville) recitals and the like. On the 21st of this month for instance, Sir Michael Redgrave will read from the works of Hans Christian Andersen, and on the 18th of April, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf will sing. Mr. Kramer calls Miss Schwarzkopf's appearance "a first experiment...