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Hair on the Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the 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...
Barber of Seville (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Film of the Rossini opera, starring Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...conductors who won special laurels : Fritz Reiner, for conducting the Met's broadcast (over ABC) of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14); 30-year-old Leonard Bernstein, "best guest conductor"; and the Boston Pops' Arthur Fiedler, "best program conductor." Favorites in other musical fields: Contralto Marian Anderson, Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Organist E. Power Biggs...
After 2½ spicy months in the tabloids, Ferruccio Tagliavini, 35, robustious Metropolitan Opera tenor, was adjudged, by a 2-1 decision, the father of a 17-month-old girl, whose mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...