Word: tenoritis
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...Tenor Embrace. Standing between her mother & father after the encores, Anna Maria was embraced by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and heard Baritone Giuseppe de Luca call her voice "a divine instrument." Said the New York Times next day: "Some of the purest, loveliest sounds that have been heard all season...
...History and Literature department suffered the greatest less possible in the death of its outstanding faculty member, Professor Matthiesses. Next year, several of its best tutors, such as Messrs. Holland and Levinson in the American field, will not be here. But personnel changes will not affect the general tenor of the field, which, under the chairmanship of Elliot Perkins, will continue its tradition of high standards and broad interests for undergraduates interested in both the social sciences and the humanities...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...
Puccini: Turandot (Gina Cigna, soprano; Armando Giannotti, tenor; Luciano Neroni, basso; Francesco Merli, tenor; Magda Olivero, soprano; Afro Poli, baritone; EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Franco Ghione conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's last, but not best opera gets as good a performance as possible. Recording: good...
...part of the gypsy minstrel, Manrico, Gino Sinimberghi has a warm and clear tenor. Azucena, Manrico's mother, is sung with intensity and dramatic power by Gianna Pederzini. Supporting singers Enzo Mascherni and Vittorina Colonnello also have fine, well-controlled voices. The orchestra and chorus of the Rome Opera House completes the first-rate group of artists which makes "II Trovatore" at least a musical success...