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...Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces comes Wagner like a Titan, mightily marching...
...Chicago Opera Company gave the first performance in its two weeks stay at the "Hub" last night when it staged "Aida" before a hall crowded with enthusiastic patrons. Virgilio Lazzari, who takes the part of "Archibaldo" in "L'Amore Dei Tre Re," also participated in last evenings performance and was given long and hearty applause for his singing and acting...
Outside and Inside were two sides of that startling event?the collapse of Miss Aida Jenkinson, actress, on the night on which she was to have realized her life's ambition by appearing as Viola in Twelfth Night. Instead of being page to Duke Orsino, she put on an air signifying that Duke Orsino was page to her; she cut all other parts with mighty shears; she threw out her lines like strings of sausage out of a sausage machine. But on the great night itself, after splitting her green jacket up the back, Actress Jenkinson collapsed in a heap...
...night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled...
Features, of the week at Chicago's auditorium were Lucia, presenting for the first time Toti dal Monte, soprano; Tannhaüser, with another new conductor, Mr. Weber; Samson and Delilah. The ever-popular Rosa Raisa's second appearance of the season was in Aida, last Saturday night...