Word: tebaldi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those feuding balletomanes, the Marquis de Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty white dove (Tebaldi). Casarosa the old sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young as he thinks he is.'' In a mad finale, the "God of the Press" arrived...
...Philadelphia's arena last fortnight, Wrestler Antonino ("Dropkick") Rocca, weighing in at 228 lbs., squared off against John ("Adonis") Valentine, weighing 234 lbs. More than two miles away, at the Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and sang Ah, spietata from Handel's Amadigi. As the evening wore on, a suave, white-tied figure kept scurrying back and forth between the two programs: Aurelio ("Ray") Fabiani, promoter of both wrestling and music, was hard at work on both sides of show-business history...
...also treated Philadelphians to professional tennis tournaments, midget auto racing, ice revues, plus such middlebrow musical fare as Mantovani's lush strings. With profits from these enterprises, he has given Philadelphia a new opera company, the Lyric, lured big-name singers with fat fees ($6.500 per recital for Tebaldi...
Fabiani still occasionally plays his Stradivarius, moves with ease through his two worlds. On the night of the Tebaldi recital, after presenting the singer with masses of long-stemmed roses, he drove to a local precinct to bail out two fans of Dropkick Rocca who had been jailed for assaulting the referee...
...operatic pea patch since George London rose to fame. In the last four years, in a series of guest appearances with the Chicago and San Francisco Operas, he has been treated to a steady chorus of critical huzzas. His recording of The Girl of the Golden West (with Tebaldi for London) has been lavishly praised. Currently, he is negotiating a contract with the Metropolitan...