Word: aria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years on the Keith circuit, the sisters returned to Manhattan. Carmela determined to study seriously. William Thorner, her teacher, happened also to hear Rosa who, nothing daunted, undertook to sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
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Rigoletto, Caro nome and Tutte le feste by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $2)?The singer who within the past fortnight has stormed Cleveland and Cincinnati. The first aria is the one which did the trick in Cleveland...
...Pulitzer Prize winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria da Capo, The Buck in the Snow...
...greater triumph was to come in Rigoletto a few nights later. The boxes were filled with fashionable Wednesday-nighters, the house tensely expectant. Soon came the Caro nome aria and Lily Pons stopped the show. Applause lasted ten minutes by the clock. After the second act she had ten curtain calls. After the final curtain 500 yelling enthusiasts stayed 35 minutes, recalled her in all some 30 times. As in Lucia it was her singing not her acting which offered the emotional thrill...