Word: stefano
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Callas sat at her director's desk, marking the score and consulting with her two co-directors, Giuseppe di Stefano and Fabrizio Melano. During the breaks, Callas and Di Stefano, friends for 20 years, laughed together about the old days-even the 1955 La Traviata performance in Mexico City when Tenor Di Stefano stalked off the stage, leaving Callas stranded in the second act in retaliation for her hogging the duets and curtain calls of the previous evening. "What wonderful things we did then, Pippo," she smiled. They worked with each other as affectionately as they did with...
...acutely aware of the singers' sensibilities as Callas and Di Stefano once had been of their own, they criticized ever so gently. When the singers needed correction, Callas refrained from public remonstrations and instead took them aside, instructing them out of earshot. "We are not here to bully anyone," she observed. "We are here to help...
...Laborers' Union is a "family" enterprise of the Stefano Magaddino Mob. Its rolls are swelled by the membership of Mafia capos and soldiers; its offices are a haven of bookmakers and shy-locks. The organization's power to call slowdowns and walkouts, to control pilferage and absenteeism, and to enforce threats against contractors runs through the history of the new Government office building...
...years ago, Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's chief racket buster, created "Strike Force," a team of lawyers and investigators from different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation of Stefano Magaddino. Stefano's son Peter, in whose home agents found more than $500,000 in cash as well as a clutch of weapons, has been prosecuted, among others, as a result of their efforts. Similar Strike Forces have now been set up in seven other cities...
...Festival documents the origin of her reputation as one of the finest dramatic sopranos in opera history. Her voice then had an almost unbelievable poignancy and precision, reinforced by an intelligence that makes most other singers' version of the mad scene seem like inane twittering. Tenor Giuseppi Di Stefano, Baritone Tito Gobbi and Conductor Tullio Serafin provide rousingly good support...