Word: pagliacci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
Italo Tajo had sung Don Basilio only two days after arriving in the U.S., and after only one rehearsal. But he has been working up to it since he was 13. It was then that he heard Pagliacci in Milan. Before long, he was reading librettos behind his schoolbooks. His schoolwork suffered ("I was stupido"), but Tajo didn't care...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci...
Other would-be Pagliacci jumped at the idea. Minerva Pious, weary of Pansy Nussbaum, was a creditable Lady Macbeth. Ezra Stone, still unhappily and profitably playing Henry Aldrich at 30, would try Shylock. Jack Pearl would try King Lear; Morey Amsterdam was set to do Cyrano. Henry Morgan agreed to do a show, but couldn't decide on a role: "Anything but Shakespeare . . . I told them to get me something where a guy goes crazy. With a little nudge I can go out of my mind quite easily...
Besides Cho-Cho-San, last week she sang the leading role of Nedda in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, an opera she had never seen. This winter she will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As for ambitions to sing at the Met, chronically deaf to Negro voices, Camilla Williams says simply: "All opera singers aspire...