In 2005 the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation ( http :// www. gyllenbergs. fi / en /) bought a violin from Mr Berglund, which was built in 1732 by Carlo Bergonzi ( 1683-1747 ).

Nonetheless, di Stefano still managed to enjoy a significant operatic career, despite facing stiff competition during the 1950s and ' 60s from such outstanding fellow tenors as Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Richard Tucker and, prior to 1960, the short-lived Jussi Björling.

Bergonzi is the first and most noted member of the Bergonzi family, an illustrious group of luthiers from Cremona, Italy, a city with a rich tradition of stringed instrument fabricators.

The Kreisler Bergonzi is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi ( 1683 – 1747 ) from Cremona in 1740.

Bernard Bergonzi reviewed it in the New Statesman in the September 20, 1963 issue and said, " Many first novels are excessively autobiographical, but A Man from Elsewhere suffers from the opposite fault of being a cerebral construct, dreamed up out of literature and the contemporary French cinema.

She participated in the Gala celebrating James Levine's 25th Anniversary at the Metropolitan Opera, singing with Carlo Bergonzi and Ferruccio Furlanetto a selection from I Lombardi alla prima crociata, a work she recorded in its entirety with Levine, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra that same year.

* Madama Butterfly ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tullio Serafin conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Enzo Sordello.

* La Bohème ( Giacomo Puccini ): Tullio Serafin conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna D ' Angelo, Ettore Bastianini.

* Puccini: Tosca ( Callas, Bergonzi ; Prêtre, 1964 ) EMI

Her 1966 recording of Madama Butterfly with Carlo Bergonzi and Rolando Panerai, under Barbirolli for EMI is frequently referred to as definitive.

Other instruments associated with Paganini include the Antonio Amati 1600, the Nicolò Amati 1657, the Paganini-Desaint 1680 Stradivari, the Guarneri-filius Andrea 1706, the Le Brun 1712 Stradivari, the Vuillaume c. 1720 Bergonzi, the Hubay 1726 Stradivari, and the Comte Cozio di Salabue 1727 violins ; the Countess of Flanders 1582 da Salò-di Bertolotti, and the Mendelssohn 1731 Stradivari violas ; the Piatti 1700 Goffriller, the Stanlein 1707 Stradivari, and the Ladenburg 1736 Stradivari cellos ; and the Grobert of Mirecourt 1820 ( guitar ).

Prior to the release of Dr. No – and unconnected with the book itself – Bernard Bergonzi, in the March 1958 issue of Twentieth Century attacked Fleming's work, saying that it contained " a strongly marked streak of voyeurism and sado-masochism " and that the books showed " the total lack of any ethical frame of reference ".

* August 7 – Carlo Bergonzi makes his professional debut as Schaunard in La Bohème at the Arena Argentina in Catania.

Famous examples include Zinka Milanov, Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, and Renata Scotto.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

He soon established himself as one of a quartet of Italian tenor superstars who reached the peak of their fame in the 1950s and ' 60s, the others being Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Bergonzi and Franco Corelli.

* Aida ( Giuseppe Verdi ): Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, with Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato, Cornell McNeil.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello ( Verdi's ), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier.

His recordings of Verdi's Rigoletto ( alongside Renata Scotto and Carlo Bergonzi ) and Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlos, are probably the most respected of these ventures.

Carlo Bergonzi ( born 13 July 1924 ) is an Italian operatic tenor.

Essentially a lyric tenor with spinto capabilities, Bergonzi was greatly admired during the peak of his career for his beautiful diction, smooth legato, warm timbre and elegant phrasing.

Bergonzi was born in Vidalenzo, near Parma.

' Bergonzi Talks with Zucker and The Public ', WKCR Radio, October 12, 1985.

* Bergonzi, Bernard.

* Verdi: La traviata ( with Caballé, Bergonzi – Prêtre, cond.

* Verdi: Attila ( with Raimondi, Deutekom, Bergonzi — Gardelli, cond.

The Bergonzi family of luthiers were the successors to the Amati family in Cremona.

She sang with many famous colleagues including tenors Beniamino Gigli, Mario Filippeschi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Luciano Pavarotti, and Plácido Domingo, mezzo sopranos Giulietta Simionato, Fedora Barbieri, Shirley Verrett, Lili Chookasian, Grace Bumbry, baritones Gino Bechi, Tito Gobbi.

On July 6, the arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton agents from New York City and Chicago resulted in a fight in which 10 men — seven strikers and three Pinkertons — were killed and hundreds were injured.

** Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

" Sharpless draws a letter from his pocket and tells her, " Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton has written to me.

" Suzuki sees a strange woman in the garden, learns from Sharpless that she is Pinkerton ’ s American wife and collapses to her knees in shock.

Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884.

The federal Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893 continues to prohibit an " individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization " from being employed by " the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia.

* In order to divert Pinkerton J. Snoopington the bank examiner ( Franklin Pangborn ) from discovering Og's embezzlement of bank funds, Egbert takes him to the bar and surreptiously asks Joe if " Michael Finn " has been in the bar yet today, a signal that Joe is to drug the bank examiner's drink.

The Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893 () forbade the U. S. Government from using Pinkerton National Detective Agency employees, or similar private police companies.

To break the strike and secure the mill from the disgruntled workers, industrialist Henry Clay Frick hired hundreds of armed toughs from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

The company stopped paying Pinkerton in late 1788, as the costs were exceeding the original estimates, and the contract was taken away from them in February 1789.

Industrialist Henry Clay Frick sent private security agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike at a Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill.

Noted killer for hire and contract employee of the Pinkerton Agency, Tom Horn, obtained information from explosives expert Bill Speck that revealed that they had shot Hazen, which Horn passed on to Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo.

Many of the Pinkerton agents refused to participate in the firefight any longer ; the agents crowded onto the barge farthest from the shore.

He demanded that each Pinkerton be charged with murder, forced to turn over his arms and then be removed from the town.

The press expressed shock at the treatment of the Pinkerton agents, and the torrent of abuse helped turn media sympathies away from the strikers.

The Pinkerton National Detective Agency first began using these on Wanted posters from the Wild West days.

His young bride, Cho-Cho-San, is a geisha whose family were strongly in favor of the marriage until Pinkerton forbade them from visiting.

* Lieutenant Pinkerton, a character from Madama Butterfly

** Pinkerton liability, a basis of conspiracy liability derived from Pinkerton v. United States