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From Hollywood, where he is working on a movie called Mr. Imperium, Basso Ezio (Some Enchanted Evening) Pinza, 58, announced that his second wife, Doris, 31, is expecting a third child in December...
Puccini: Turandot (Gina Cigna, soprano; Armando Giannotti, tenor; Luciano Neroni, basso; Francesco Merli, tenor; Magda Olivero, soprano; Afro Poli, baritone; EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Franco Ghione conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's last, but not best opera gets as good a performance as possible. Recording: good...
...actually rushes onstage at one point and hustles the old crone off. When two of the orange-housed princesses die of thirst in the desert, the stage audience saves the third by rushing to the rescue with a fire-bucket of water brought in from the wings. Biggest laugh: Basso Richard Wentworth's grotesquely funny dance and aria as the huge, bosomy lady cook from whom the prince steals the three oranges by charming her with a piece of ribbon...
...fight! Couldn't make love to anybody! He was tied down. The whole orientation of psychoanalysis has developed out of the patient's recumbent position." Dr. Moreno punctuated his remarks with colorful gestures, and his gusto of delivery could qualify him for another role--that of basso buffo...
...anniversary night last week, friends, students and long-remembering fans got to hear more than a remembrance of a great voice. Although he puffed a bit through his program of Lully, Berlioz, Debussy and Bizet, Basso Rothier proved he still had a voice as golden in its middle range as an old $20 piece and as round and sound at the bottom as a mahogany log. And when he finished up with Schumann's The Two Grenadiers he also proved he could still bring down a house...