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Word: tenors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dazzling Don | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

...premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida. Adler also revived such difficult classics as Verdi's Macbeth and Wagner's Flying Dutchman, gradually building up his own high-caliber stable of singers, including Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Vienna's Leonie Rysanek, British Tenor Richard Lewis, and a strong group of young American discoveries. This season's highlights: the brilliantly staged U.S. premiere of Francis Poulenc's religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Smash | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Bass: Da otvechai pochemu Tenor: Weather is O.K. Bass: Akh da slushaite slushaite Tenor: Weather O.K. weather is fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gatta-Dammerung | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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