Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producing the same opera several nights in succession (to save money on moving scenery): "Many roles are sung by artists who have won public acclaim in a particular part . . . The roles are so exacting that one artist cannot sing two nights in succession . . ." Anyway, "how about the many [out-of-town] music lovers who . . . want variety in opera just as they want variety in Broadway plays? What would they think, when here for a week of opera, if we produced the same work several nights in succession...
...picture is especially noteworthy for its lack of Hollywood exaggeration or unreal emotion, although it strains at one touch of sentimentality when the inmates tearfully sing "Going Home" at an asylum dance. Except for this minor defect, the film's purity aids it in revealing the dark horrors of mental disease at the bottom of a snake...
Originally, Ebe was to have come to the U.S. in 1940 (she had a Met contract), but couldn't leave Italy after the war broke out. She likes Italian opera best, has the power and range, but "not the temperament" to sing Wagner. Says she: "It is dangerous for an Italian to attempt Wagner. I do not feel heroic...
When plump little Italian Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani walked onstage for her New York debut, she got an unexpected ovation. It overwhelmed her so much she could hardly get through her first group of Handel and Vivaldi songs. "I can't sing when I am emotional," she said. But when she got her own emotions under control, her listeners began to lose theirs. A singer in the great bel canto tradition, she was as golden at the top of her voice as at the bottom, and as velvety in her ringing forte as in her piano. And she could...
...little woman who admits to being "only as old as I look" (early fortyish). The night after her concert last week, she went to dinner with Arturo Toscanini, who had listened in frowning silence to her voice when she was 20, then next day sent her a contract to sing at Milan's La Scala. At dinner, says Ebe, "Maestro was in a reminiscing mood, but he only covered the period 1898 to 1913-not my time...