Word: basso
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...could introduce him to the screen (TIME, July 23). Now moviegoers can see why. The film shackles Pinza and Lana Turner to the story of an incognito King's fling with a nightclub cutie from the U.S.-a situation enfeebled by long service in Ruritanian farce and operetta. Basso Pinza sings three numbers predictably well; Actress Turner sings a couple predictably. But only the Technicolor looks good in Mr. Imperium...
...program called the newcomer a basso, and he looked like a big one. But San Francisco operagoers, knowing that there are no great dramatic bassos around these days, sat back to listen in medium apathy. Next thing they knew, they were on the edge of their seats. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni was giving them Boris Godunov at the top of its style...
Handsome young (30) Basso Rossi had appeared from nowhere, so far as most San Franciscans were concerned. But it was neither his U.S. debut nor his first U.S. critical rave. He was one of 25 unhappy European singers who were stranded in Chicago four seasons ago when their impresario went broke (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947). The Chicago Tribune's captious Claudia Cassidy got him to sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner to her over the telephone. She compared him to Chaliapin and Pinza...
Married. Léon Rothier, 76, famed French-born basso, who appeared in some 75 different roles (best known as Mephistopheles in Faust) in a record-breaking 1,687 performances at the Metropolitan Opera; and Clara Balog, 49, manager of his voice studio; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Feodor Chaliapin, the great basso, was a friend of a different stamp-one who devoured life with all the resources of his huge frame. As this was an expensive business, Chaliapin greatly resented being asked to give his services gratis. "Only little birds sing for nothing," he loved to say. But nothing pleased him more than to phone his friend, Pianist Rachmaninoff, and invite him to an all-night session of duets. One night when Chaliapin was in his cups, he fixed Bunin with a beady eye, and saying, "I think, Vanusha, that you are very tight indeed," humped...