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...read comic books in the dugout ("I like the ones about crooks best"), once turned down an invitation to dinner at a famous restaurant with the comment: "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded." On a trip to Italy in 1961, Yogi took in Tosca at La Scala. "It was pretty good," he said. "Even the music was nice." And who can ever forget Lawrence Berra Night in his home town of St. Louis? Yogi stepped up to the microphone and announced: "I want to thank all the baseball fans and everyone else who made this night...
...study of primitive behavior patterns, Beach Party is more unoriginal than aboriginal. In comparison, it makes Gidget's Roman misadventures look like a scene from Tosca...
Last week came an angry gripe in Literaturnaya Gazeta from a Siberian housewife who demanded that Leningrad stop sending its prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire...
Fear & Anguish. Built on the grand scale of the heavy roles she prefers, Crespin is the sort of singing actress who can seem desirable as Tosca and despairing enough for The Masked Ball. "Opera is an art of convention," she says, "and no one appears ridiculous who has dramatic command of the role." Her voice, chilly in its lack of vibrato but warm in its swelling power, makes her best for the German opera, and the summit of her ambition is to sing Isolde. Crespin and her Alsatian husband live quietly on a demanding musical diet dictated by her commitments...
...Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing the second act of Butterfly should also be able to sing Tosca: they are both "Italian operas," and the first rule for singing in an Italian opera is to make sure everyone can hear you. Refinements come later on-if, of course, they come...