Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Marguerite Piazza played the role on TV, he had her poured into a skintight gown with nothing underneath. Then, as Soprano Piazza took a deep breath to reach for a high note, the gown split down the back. At that portentous moment, Tenor Jack Russell, singing with her, grabbed for the back of the dress. He caught it just in time to keep the show from being...
Watch the Color. Designer du Pont* does not usually have to depend on a tenor to get him out of the tight squeeze he puts a soprano into. Resourcefulness is merely one of the qualities needed by the costume designer for Max Liebman's NBC-TV spectaculars. In addition, he must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That...
Could He Read? Author Hoffman, who spent 19 years digging up "evidence," believes that Christopher Marlowe fired every single shot in what is called "The Shakespeare Canon." The dedicated tenor of his writing indicates that he would far rather be burned at the stake than give up his stake in Marlowe...
...Rome, a civil court ruled that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sometimes made Italy's great Tenor Enrico Caruso appear far less than great in the movie The Great Caruso. Awarded to Caruso's heirs, for MGM's reflections upon the family's honor: $8,300 damages...
Parsifal) staged by the composer's grandsons, in a style unmatched by any of the world's opera houses. Metropolitan Soprano Astrid Varnay and Tenor Ramon Vinay will sing several of the top roles...