Word: tenoritis
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...head caught in a grand piano, beat his face with a microphone, shot himself in the foot. Making their TV debut, his rogue's gallery of radio characters (DeadEye, the cowboy; San Fernando Red, the crooked politician; Cauliflower McPugg, the punchdrunk fighter; Klem Kaddiddlehopper, the Irish tenor who is neither Irish nor a singer) reached a new high in uninhibited clowning...
...time it was straightforwardly lyrical. There were no ravishing melodies to leave the audience humming, but Anne Trulove's first-act aria - lamenting departed Tom - beautifully sung by Soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf of the Vienna State Opera, came close to stopping the show. The other top voices: Tenor Robert Rounseville of the New York City Opera as Tom, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel as Baba the Turk, the sideshow bearded lady whom Tom marries as a jape...
Verdi: I Lombard! (Aldo Bertocci, tenor; Mario Petri, bass-baritone; Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano; Maria Vitale, soprano; Gustavo Gallo, tenor; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Manno Wolf-Ferrari conducting; 6 sides LP). Verdi's fourth opera (1843) is a violent story of love and religion in the 11th Century...
...Adriana Lecouvreur (Giacinto Prandelli, tenor; Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Alfredo Simonetto conducting; 6 sides LP). A melodramatic love story by Francesco Cilèa (1866-1950) studded with romantic melodies and forceful scoring...
...biggest hits of the Edinburgh Festival is young (27) U.S. Tenor David Poleri. A Philadelphian who began to study voice only five years ago, Poleri got little attention in his own country until he made his debut in Manon at the New York City Opera this spring (TIME, April 2)-and had some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which...