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Letters from Italy
Weaver, William | February 4, 1956 issue

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In Italy, the opening of the opera season arouses about the same amount of public excitement as the beginning of the baseball season in America, Appassionati, who form an overwhelming majority of the adult population here, immediately start comparing the repertory of La Scala with that of the San Carlo, or reopen the never-settled argument about the respective merits of Italy's two best sopranos, the stately Renata Tebaldi and the dazzling Maria Meneghini Caillas. Opera seats are relatively cheap here, but those who cannot afford to go often to the theater can still hear all the important performances on the Radio Italiana, which regularly broadcasts "live" front Italy's major opera houses.

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OPERA; THEATER; BASEBALL; RADIO; SOPRANOS (Singers); ITALY
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