Word: alda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sopranos Frances Alda, Lillian Nordica; Tenors Alessandro Bonci, Charles Hackett, Edward Johnson...
Died. Gennaro Papi, 54, conductor of Italian repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He joined the Metropolitan in 1913 as assistant to Toscanini, coached stars of opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...
From a Manhattan gutter 230 sparkling diamonds and rubies caught the eye of an honest laborer, who turned the brooch over to police. It had been dropped by longtime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frances Alda...
Married. Mme. Frances Alda Gatti-Casazza, 55, oldtime opera singer, former wife of the Metropolitan Opera's late manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza; and Ray Vir Den, 45, Manhattan advertising executive, and something of a singer himself; in Charleston, S.C. Chuckled the bridegroom, vice president of the famed Dutch Treat Club: "I hope I surprised the boys...