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...flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees), 64, who in a quarter-century at the Met has sung some 50 secondary roles and emerged as the finest character actor in opera...
...your article on the cardinals [March 30], one caption reads, "Mass was sung for Cardinal Muench of Milwaukee." That should read "of Fargo." Muench was Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, when he became a member of the Curia in Rome...
Heading upward on the hit parade is a new record, PT 109, by Cowboy Crooner Jimmy Dean, setting to doggerel the wartime exploits of President Kennedy and sung in the manner of Big Bad John. Sample lyrics: In '43 they...
...throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang it in 1936. Explains Tucker: "Pagliacci tears every fiber of your body...
Rodgers had the part largely rewritten once he had seen Noelle, sent her off to take singing lessons; she has been dancing for 19 of her 27 years, but has never sung before. She stretches to her full 5 ft. 4 in. and, for a change, faces the audience as she sings: Cett' jolie poupee, c'est moi. Jolie a croquer...