Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Enrico Caruso's widow Dorothy finally came right out and said that the only living tenor who comes close to wearing "Rico's" crown is the Metropolitan Opera's Swedish-born Jussi Bjoerling. Said Tenor Bjoerling: "The greatest moment of my life...
...current hit at Manhattan's snooty St. Regis Maisonette is a young man with a crew cut and horn-rimmed spectacles. His tenor has a shower-room exuberance about it, and he looks more like a fugitive from an Ivy League library than a nightclub entertainer. As he picks up the beat of Happy Go Lucky or It's a Lovely Day, he bounces on the balls of his feet, catches his thumbs in his trouser pockets and flashes a boyishly toothy grin. With his air of the self-satisfied sophomore, 26-year-old Russell Nype has made...
Paul Tibbetts' strong bass voice appeared to excellent advantage in the role of Creon. While Oscar Henry's lyric tenor lacked the force required by the dramatic role of Oedipus, it was none the less appealing. Miss Alberts made Jocasta's fascinating aria one of the evening's high points. The "Oedipus" was marred only by a badly written narration which broke up the tenseness of the work...
Oscar Henry 1G will sing the tenor title role. Other soloists are Eunice Alberts, contralto, and Paul D. Tibbetts '45, baritone. Robert G. Woverton '53 will perform the piano solo in Constant Lambert's "The Rio Grande...
...Rose Tattoo (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is laid, like most Tennessee Williams plays, in the South-in a village on the Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...