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Following the Carteri incident, even veteran Soprano Renata Tebaldi lost her voice from fright before a Parma performance of Boheme ("I can't sing tonight; something has tightened my throat up," said she), and Conductor Basile, in an effort to appease the gallery, fired four of the weaker members of the cast. It was all too much for Milan's Opera Singers' Union. Unless the manners of the gallery improved, said the union, its singers would be forbidden to appear in Parma...
...apparent to Leinsdorf that Symonette "could not get any music out of his throat." When Symonette finally croaked out the line "Aus meinem Angesicht bist du verbannt" ("From my presence you are banished"), Leinsdorf ordered the curtain rung down...
Bone in the Throat. In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
...another witness to the tragedy of the Bluebelle. "Oh, my God," stammered Harvey when he heard the news. "Why, that's wonderful." A few minutes later, he excused himself, slipped out of the hearing room, went to his motel, slashed his left thigh, his ankles and his throat with a double-edged razor blade...
...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...