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Tebaldi excells in the delicate spinning out of a phrase with a lovely, floating mezza-voce (half-voice). She loves to linger over each tone color much in the manner of the tenor Gigli. There is no doubt that she is a true diva; even her faults are majestic. Her voice is accustomed to soaring over an orchestra, and the bare accompaniment of a piano could not hide her steely, shrill quality at full voice, another common trait of Italian sopranos...
...future plans. The President replied: "I will say this: I myself said I would seek the advice of my trusted friends and associates and I have been busy doing it. But as that goes on there is a flood of mail and the mail generally is of one tenor only.* I am-after all, a person, no matter how many political enemies he has, does also have lots of friends and it is-they believe in him and they are very anxious to express their views...
...notable spoilsport: ex-Metropolitan Opera Tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose claimed income of $20,640 matched the tax-collector's estimate...
Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
Died. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 62, U.S.-born widow of great Tenor Enrico Caruso, author of Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; of cancer; in Baltimore...