Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome's Church of St. Augustine, a requiem mass commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...
...just like the story books. Before a concert in Carnegie Hall one night last week, almost nobody in Manhattan had ever heard of 13-year-old Soprano Anna Maria Alberghetti. When it was over, the audience stood up and cheered, famous singers stepped forward to congratulate her, and surprised music critics for the Manhattan press dashed off to write enthusiastic pieces for the morning papers...
...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...
Tenor Embrace. Standing between her mother & father after the encores, Anna Maria was embraced by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and heard Baritone Giuseppe de Luca call her voice "a divine instrument." Said the New York Times next day: "Some of the purest, loveliest sounds that have been heard all season...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...