Word: aida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January 31 the Chicago Civic Opera Company will launch its annual season of Grand Opera in Boston. Opening with melodious and spectacular "Aida", the Company will continue its run until February...
...husband, Joseph, about to make his debut before the jeweled Metropolitan audience and 38 fellow-townsmen who had traveled all the way from Nashville, Tenn., for the occasion, visited her in the hospital, left, chased a taxi, caught a cold, could not appear as the King in Aida (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Basso MacPherson sang. He has a pleasant near-basso voice. But only two Nashville people witnessed the triumph-his mother-in-law and his teacher. Because the Metropolitan Opera does not broadcast, Mrs. MacPherson turned off her radio, heard Joseph MacPherson Jr., 2, warble the songs...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company competently negotiated the first week of its repertoire. Aida was the first to be taken out of storage, dusted and dressed in all its Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden...
...Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro one night in 1886 to conduct Aida by heart and win fame thereby. . . . But most of all, since his name occurred most often, one thought of Pietro Mascagni, and the curious stories that are told about this baker's son, whose life has been a wail redeemed...
Operas performed or scheduled this summer at Ravinia: Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliette, Rigoletto, Faust, Martha, Aida, and The King's Henchman, a new opera (TIME, June 7) by Deems Taylor (score) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (libretto...