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...never fought professionally, finally gave up his amateur bouts because his mother grieved so much over his cut and bruised features. He had done his first singing in his school chorus, but did not decide to become a singer until he was 18, when his school friend, Giuseppe di Stefano (now a Met tenor), urged him to enter a competition in Florence ("It's free . . . there are girls . . ."). Though he knew only two arias, Siepi won the competition. He made his debut in Rigoletto two months later in a provincial opera house. When La Scala reopened in 1946, Siepi...
...secretaries. But later samples included fragments of the brilliantly colored, elaborately detailed painting of Siena's prime: virgins with patterned golden haloes, battle scenes, street scenes. Among the anonymous panels on exhibit, experts thought they could distinguish the work of such important Sienese artists as Taddeo di Bartolo, Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta and Ambrozio Lorenzetti...
Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents...
Last week, Manhattan got its first chance to hear dashing, 26-year-old Di Stefano. New York's Italian opera fans, a demonstrative lot, were out in strength. As the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto, Giuseppe's soaring tenor was always good, if not always golden; and he had a dramatic way of hanging on to his ringing top notes until the claque started. The claque's din was soon equaled by the audience's "bravos...
Russian interference in Macedonia dates from Tsarist times. After the Russo-Turkish war (1877-78), the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...