OPERA COLLAPSES THROUGH TENOR'S JEALOUSY
LONDON. Because the qrchestra applauded his partner's song, Italy's famous tenor, Lauri Volpi, refused to sing with her in the opera "Manon." Rome Opera House called oft' the show and returned £1000 worlh oi ticlcets. Volpi's partner was Guiliana Fontanelli, a 26-year-old beauty whom British troops in Italy callcd "The Butterfly." Fontanelli hegged Volpi oh her j knees to sing wti-h her, but volpi replied, "I prefer to sing with first-vate | singers." An Opera Horse oiTicial oxplained: i "There seems to hav been a little j jealousy somewhere.", "Manon" will be produced later 1 this month with "The Butterfly," but j vithout Volpi. '
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5317, 1 February 1947, Page 3
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108OPERA COLLAPSES THROUGH TENOR'S JEALOUSY Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5317, 1 February 1947, Page 3
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