Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain hog, she has been known to refuse to take a solo curtain call after the third act of Manon Lescaut because "it is the tenor's act." Her patience with her fans is apparently limitless: she will sit hour after hour backstage after exhausting performances, dutifully signing autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier...
...clothes and costumes, stationed herself in the wings to minister to Renata with a Thermos jug of warm tea and an emergency flask of brandy when she came offstage. She was quick to resent any affronts to her daughter. Backstage lore has it that she once berated a tenor for holding the high B-flat in the love duet at the end of the second act of Andrea Chenier an instant longer than Renata did. Before every performance she used to join Renata in her dressing room for a few moments of prayer...
What is he going to write about? His previous works, American Interpretations of Natural Law and The Growth of American Constitutional Law, are a clue to the tenor of Wright's thinking. And he was one of the first to explode the Frederick Jackson Turner thesis on the impact of the frontier on American history...
...should advise the directors of the Metropolitan, said Tenor Italo Campanini, "to tear out the inside of their building and rebuild...
...house is unfit for music." That was just after the Met concluded its first Manhattan season, and Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase...