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...months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme. Dusolina Giannini, who recently won fame and popularity as soloist with the Harvard Glee Club. Among other things she will sing Haendel's Large, Donaudy's "Del Mio Amato Ben" and aria from "Figaro", one from Beethoven and songs of Brahms and Schumann...
...entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti). The heat of his singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were...
...following program will be given: Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Unfinished Symphony in B minor Shubert Recitative and aria, "Eri tu cha macciavi" Werdi Song of the Sandman and Prayer from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck Jaernefelt Berceuse Two Sentimental Tangos (for dancing) Vigil Thompson '22 "I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly" Purcell "Wie bist du meine Koenigen" Brahms Cartner "Love is Mine" (C. T. Leonard '23, accompanist.) Prelude to second act of "Louise" Charpantier Overture to "Oberon" Weber Tickets for the concert may be procured at the Cooperative Society, Herrick's, and the Copley Theatre...
...holds the theory that these 40-winkers close their eyes, not because they are bored, but because they fear to be disenchanted. They are those idealists who are more often perturbed by what they see than ravished by what they hear; who have listened, at Tosca, to an aria that spoke to them of all the rapture, the pathos of a consummate and fated love, and have seen a stubby tenor waddle forward on tiptoe to knead the arms of a diva who out-topped him by several inches; who have heard, in Bohēme, a little catch, light...