Violinist Les Dreyer recently retired after a long and illustrious career in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, including 30 years as associate-principal.
If there is anything on this planet a chess player dreads more than a trapped queen, it's a kibitzer. When the chess players are Met Opera musicians, however- and the kibitzer is Luciano Pavarotti, who politely inquires if he may please play the winner- the request is difficult to refuse indeed.
The Franco Corelli who allegedly bit Birgit Nilsson on the neck during Turandot, and attacked a heckler in Naples during Il Trovatore, is definitely not the Corelli I knew. One
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