Word: verdis
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...British M.P.s declared in the House of Commons that British prisoners in Italy are allowed to hear only Italian and German music, while British authorities continue to give German and Italian prisoners liberal rations of Wagner, Brahms and Verdi...
...turtles into a pond, Stalin decided to hear Lady Macbeth. He did not like it, walked out before it was over. Murder from boredom struck him as a bourgeois idea. Besides, Stalin's musical taste runs to simple, more tuneful things, zigzags between Beethoven's Eroica and Verdi's Rigoletto. Also, he had a seat directly above the brasses...
...short, grey-moustached man stood, looking pleased, behind the standees in Manhattan's spacious, echoey Center Theater, and watched the red velours curtains close in front of the shadowy vault scene of Verdi's Aïda. He had a right to be pleased. For the 150 members of his troupe, it was merely the last perform-ance of another season, but for Fortune Gallo it was a milestone. His San Carlo Opera Company had wound up its 30th season, giving the U.S. public opera at popular prices, and without deficits...
...measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
...broad or even Shakespearean Scots the witches talked, but operatic Italian. They hailed him as "Macbetto, di Glamis Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Candor Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Scozia Re!". He was Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland-and hero of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi which was last given in Manhattan in 1850. This Mediterranean Macbeth, revived by Mrs. Lytle Hull's New Opera Company (TIME, Oct. 27), made a stirring music drama. Able Fritz Busch conducted...