Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monte Carlo was still firm on its foundations; the roulette wheels were running true. Princess Grace's promised return to Hollywood quickened the hearts of her countrymen. The sun bathed a harbor filled with yachts. Nevertheless, gloom last week hung over the tiny, 370-acre principality of Monaco. Reason: income taxes...
...Conceding that "two-or maybe five-of them are pictures of which I am not ashamed," Dobell was nonetheless astounded at his new rating in the art market. His first reaction: "People must have more money than sense." As abruptly as he had jettisoned them three years ago, Monaco's absolutist Prince Rainier III, 38, restored to his subjects their 51-year-old constitution and frump Parliament. The de-putsch decree -designed to juice up Rainier's popular support and democratic image-was proclaimed on the eve of a showdown with Monaco's protecting power, France, over...
...frame (his other Italian nickname is "Golden Calves"); another is that he can sing superbly (withdrawal from the Met spared Del Monaco the challenge of sharing the house with...
...give even a 10% bad one"). In recent years, the Met's stage has known four other high-priced performers (up to $2,000 or so an evening) who rank just behind Tucker as the outstanding tenors of the day. They are Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Mario Del Monaco, Franco Corelli...
MARIO DEL MONACO, 42, has, over the years, built an unwholesome reputation succinctly summed up by Soprano Joan Sutherland when she recently canceled a performance with him. Del Monaco was, said she, "far too noisy a tenor." It is true that Del Monaco, who began his singing career in the Italian army and made his big-time debut at Covent Garden, likes to shout down the opposition, and that he is often tight and rasping in the middle and lower registers. But his top register can be glorious, and he often makes up in sheer strength and virility for what...