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...young tenor appearing as Radames in Verdi's A'ida had sung "magnificently," said the Manchester Guardian; his voice had "sweetness, heroic size and natural musicality." That review, and others like it, gave the tenor pause: "I decided I had better go somewhere and learn to sing...
...only Carmen in operatic history to commit suicide was an opulently constructed New Jersey girl named Gussie Seit. That was seven years ago, at the Chicago Lyric Opera, after terrible-tempered Tenor David Poleri, appearing as Don José, stalked off the stage in the final act snarling at the conductor, "Finish it yourself." Gussie finished it herself by singing Don José's part as well as her own. At the moment of truth, when Don José was to have stabbed her, she stuck her thumb in her chest and dropped on the stage...
...Lane stepped onstage dressed in black stockings and a startlingly low-cut shirt ("I never wear a brassiere''), she stopped every eye in the house. Moving with feline grace, she developed a Carmen glittering with gypsy pride and animal excitement. "Singing with her," says a La Scala tenor, "can be pretty tough on a hot-blooded Sicilian like me." Even on La Scala's great stage, Mezzo Lane's voice was opulent and brilliant, rich as piled velvet. When she went to her death, proudly erect and dressed in white lace, the house burst into round...
Died. Betty Hicks Lanza, 37, widow of Tenor Mario Lanza, who died of a heart attack at 38 last October; of unknown cause (autopsy pending); in Beverly Hills...
...tenor sings 'Marina!' you know who Marina is: the one he's singing...