Word: tenore
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Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return...
...apparently effortless performance by Soprano Flagstad, recorded last year when she was 61. Her role: the legendary Greek queen who goes to death in exchange for her husband's life-Apollo has him booked for liquidation-but eventually so moves the god that he revives her. French Canadian Tenor Jobin as the king sings powerfully, in a voice that shivers and flares with an eloquent sense of the fate shadowing...
...seasonal curtain raiser was its first production in 36 years of Tchaikovsky's faded period piece, Eugene Onegin. At the end of the second act, the character known as Lenski sings one of the most meltingly popular tenor arias in Russian opera ("Oh where have flown my days of springtime?"), turns to face Onegin in a duel and is promptly shot dead. At the Met last week, Tenor Richard Tucker, as Lenski, was at the top of his luminous form; Baritone George London, etched against a handsomely stark stage set, was magnificently arrogant as Onegin. The only trouble...
Married. Vera Franceschi, 27, petite (about 5 ft.) San Francisco-born concert pianist; and Daniele Barioni, 27, Italian tenor who made his Metropolitan Opera debut last year in Tosca on a few hours' notice; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...varsity hockey team was sitting around the spacious dinner table at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. They had just lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Clarkson in double overtime to finish last in the NCAA hockey tournament. "If we had had a harder schedule this year," the tenor of conversation ran, "we wouldn't have lost this game. Something has to be done...