Word: tenore
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...Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...
Following the probing harmonic and contrapuntal explorations of Gesualdo, the madrigals of Luca Merenzio sounded a bit parochial and stay-at-home. Yet his two villanellas for three voices offered a great and rarely heard texture: soprano, counter-tenor, and basso. (Counter-tenor Carlo Tosti's sense of humor was, incidentally, crucial for the success of several of the Banchieri and Marenzio madrigals...
Parma, birthplace of Toscanini, takes such a fierce pride in the standards of its Teatro Regio that at one time or another Parmensi have booed virtually all the big names in Italian opera. "Go back to Rome, fatty!" shouted the galleries after the late Tenor Beniamino Gigli hit a sour note. Toscanini swore never again to step into the Parma pit after a heckler upset a 1912 performance of the Forza del Destino overture by shouting "Maestro, the violins are out of tune!" But lately the gallery gadflies are getting even sharper -or performers are getting softer. Opera has almost...
Fear of Tomatoes. The trouble started in December when Italian Tenor Ruggiero Bondino, 27, screeched out an unwritten high C in the first act of Traviata. "Bleater!" screamed the galleryites. "Go back and join your goatherd!" Later, for the benefit of Conductor Arturo Basile, they added: "Kill the conductor as well as the tenor!" Tenor Bondino beat a timorous retreat to his hotel under police escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed...
...This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. Hollis is leading off with his tenor, 'Michael, row the boat ashore, Alleluia, Christian brothers don't be slow, Alleluia; Mississippi's next to go Alleluia.' This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg--from a stone that the builders rejected...