Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
...Tenor Melchior promptly quit and wound up his 24 years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...
...opening night last month a glamorous audience paid up to $25 a seat to hear La Bohème. The performance was doomed from the start. Derisive whistles greeted the tenor's vain struggles for the high notes. After the soprano's first-act aria, a critic cracked: "They call me Mimi, but my name is Brünnhilde...
...last week La Scala Manager Antonio Ghiringhelli brought someone else in. For the season's first performance of Bellini's I Puritani, a Milanese favorite, Manager Ghiringhelli brought back U.S. Tenor Eugene Conley, for whom I Puritani was revived last season. When another singer sang flat in the first act, the audience groaned. But by the time Tenor Conley topped off the difficult third-act duet with a ringing D-flat above high C, audience and critics alike got off their hands...
Naturally, not everybody was happy. Grumbled one oldtimer: "It takes an American to come here and show us again how a tenor should sing...