Word: verdis
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...brought together 500 of the best cooks and 1,000 servants from Marseille, Trieste and Genoa. For the diversion of the expected guests, an open-air opera house had been built near the Great Pyramid; corps de ballet and singers by the dozen were imported, and the great Verdi commissioned to write an opera. (He responded with Aïda, but alas, two years too late...
...Town Hall, composed her hands and began to sing. Her voice, ranging from a mellow low contralto to a brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved one of the smash hits of the season...
...born to it, Guido certainly got an early start. His bandmaster father let him conduct his band from a table top at the age of five. At 20, when he had graduated from Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, he conducted at the Teatro Coccia at Novara-a theater that the young Toscanini had inaugurated...
...fresh and glowing in white satin and orchids. She and her hosts -the family of Thomas J. ("Think") Watson-arrived 20 minutes after the curtain belatedly rose. After all this, the Metropolitan Opera got down to what it tried hard to regard as the point of the proceedings, Verdi's Otello...
...week some two million people in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York saw ABC's telecast of the Metropolitan Opera's opening performance (see Music). Next day, with the critics' verdicts in, it was hard to believe that everyone had been looking at the same opera (Verdi's Otello). The New York Times and Sun found it "exciting" and "superb." The Philadelphia Inquirer was dazzled by "the overwhelming power and grandeur of the music and the miracle of proud and panoplied art being brought in full glory into one's own home...