Word: ezio
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...second act of La Bohême, the cafe scene, where a cart filled with toys is dragged onstage, followed by laughing children. One of the kids was obviously more taken than the others by the singing of famed Metropolitan Basso Ezio Pinza, who was playing Colline. The admiration came naturally: it was his six-year-old daughter, Claudia...
...with him on his tours, listened to him from opera-house wings, dressed up in his paints and costumes. That touring ended the day daddy made the tabloid headlines. Mme. Pinza sued Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg for $250,000 for alienation of affections. She later withdrew the suit, but divorced Ezio and took Claudia with her to Italy...
...Italy, daughter Claudia took singing lessons, at 17 made her debut in Orfeo at La Scala, and sang in the Bologna opera house. Last January, while Ezio sat nervously in the audience, 25-year-old Claudia made her U.S. debut in Washington...
Last week, Ezio and Claudia were back in San Francisco together. This time, Claudia occupied a star's dressing room, sang the long and difficult part of Marguerite to her father's Mephistopheles in the San Francisco Opera Association's performance of Faust. Greying, 55-year-old Ezio had rehearsed her privately until she was note-and letter-perfect. He wanted to be sure: "I am not one to enthuse. I won't overrate anything. You never can say it is in the bag, until it is, is that...
Opera Album: Mozart operatic arias,by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Ezio Pinza (Columbia). Best single record: Verdi's Dite alia giovine (from La Traviata), by the Met's Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill (Victor...