Word: parthian
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pompous and slow" is Amelita Galli-Curci's scornful dictum regarding grand opera. The soprano gives vent to this Parthian shot as she strides out for the last time before New York's "Golden Horseshoe". Coming from a singer who is herself neither pompous nor, one likes to think, slow, the criticism strikes the operatic world peculiarly abeam...