Word: tosca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masses who have been left out will have their chance, for the Met will come out to them. This week the company announced plans to give concert versions of La Bohéme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca in New York parks this summer-the first free public performances in its 82-year history. The series of nine performances will have an estimated potential audience of 400,000, more than half as many people as attend the Met's entire regular season...
...Hollywood starlets who have gone to Viet Nam to entertain the troops. Back in Manhattan after a two-week singing tour that took him from Saigon to Danang and included presiding over a couple of Passover Seders, Tucker said the boys thoroughly enjoyed the arias from Pagliacci and Tosca. "They're a very, very intelligent caliber of boys," he said-and very, very early risers too. Aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard, he wailed, "they told me my first show would be at 8 a.m. Eight in the morning! A singer like me doesn't even spit...
...here, as in other areas, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The information that someone is a music lover is insufficient. Unless his exact tastes are known, it is fatal to give him a recording (he is bound to have or to hate the Callas version of Tosca you have chosen). One ready but unfortunate way to avoid such pitfalls is the all-purpose gift. And even here, care should be taken; the generally safe basket of gourmet food may play havoc with a dieter...
Gabriel Faure favorably reviewed the premiere of Tosca at the Paris Opera...
...dome-topped edifice built in 1925 and styled in Turkish-bath rococo. La Guardia finally decided to subsidize an opera company to present quality productions at moderate prices. Hungarian-born Conductor Laszlo Halasz was recruited as director, and in 1944 the New York City Opera made its debut with Tosca. It was a shaky start. In Tosca's last act, the guns of the firing squad failed to go off and the hapless hero was obliged to keel over in dead silence. Building maintenance was just as makeshift. One rainy night, to dramatize the need for repairs...