Word: tosti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with...