Word: aida
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...Chicago a pleasant Aida made her debut at Civic Opera, She was Soprano Hilda Burke, 24, of Baltimore, who had wanted to be a trained nurse but succumbed to parental objection, concentrated on singing as a substitute...
California takes its opera in concentrated doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera...
...bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner (a tobacconist's daughter), are, by a lamentable coincidence, citizens of the same city, Cincinnati. Both have recently won fellowships in Dresden and refused them for Metropolitan premieres whose sameness must in some measure darken...
...Colon, in Buenos Aires, glittered as if with a luminous frost. At 9 o'clock, when the curbs outside it were populated with chauffeurs, wrapped in long coats, music began in El Colon. Tullio Serafin raised his baton, the violins began a soft prelude and the curtain rose upon Aida, a scene of warm sands and tropical trees...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...