Word: stefano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor government clerk, Togliatti now was building himself a villa among the rich near fashionable Porto Santo Stefano, and-politically-continued his do-gooder tactics. If filling-station attendants were underpaid, if a bridge fell down, if water was cut off from Rome, it was the Communists who led the protest. Faced with a milk shortage, Togliatti could be heard to say earnestly: "For a whole week now, there has not been enough milk in the cafes to make a cappuccino. That is terrible." He kept insisting that he had no intention of imposing Communism on Italy, that he only...
Puccini: Tosca (RCA Victor). With Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei, Conductor Herbert von Karajan has the finest Tosca cast that can be assembled today. Price surpasses Callas as the reigning Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia...
With time on his hands before donning his Riccardo costume for the night's production of A Masked Ball, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano was back stage at Philadelphia's Lyric Opera last week, glancing through the program. His eye caught just the kind of thing he was looking for - "Acclaimed The World's Greatest Tenor" - but to his in finite horror, there, smiling out above the blurb, was Archrival Franco Corelli. Di Stefano reacted with the cool dignity for which he is famous throughout op era. "I will not sing!" he shouted, grab bing his camel...
Impresario Aurelio Fabiani, who pro motes wrestling when he isn't baby sitting, raced after him, pleading and cajoling. After a long, cooling walk in the streets, Di Stefano agreed to sing -on one condition: the programs must be gathered up and brought to his dressing room. The curtain went up 25 minutes late, and Di Stefano sang nicely, step ping out of character at every hint of applause to bow grandly. The ushers snatched the offending programs back from his dressing room at the final cur tain and passed them out to the departing crowd. Thus those whose...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Yehudi Menuhin, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ray Bolger. Color...