Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso, roar irritation, last week, as he summoned his concert manager, S. Hurok, instructing him to announce to the world that he, Chaliapin, would not sing with the Chicago Civic Opera Company next season? Perhaps not. But whatever Mr. Chaliapin's feelings, the announcement was made. He will appear in the usual limited number of performances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and tour from coast to coast in a new series of concerts. What caused Chaliapin's decision may have been anything. It may have been Director Samuel Insull, whose alleged mismanagements have been...
Among the stars taking part are Mary Garden, famous operatic soprano, who has been with the Chicago Opera Company since 1910, Georges Baklanoff, and Virgllio Lazzari, basso, who has been greeted enthusiastically by audiences during the Company's stay in Boston this winter. The conductor for the evening will be Georgio Polacco, who has acted as conducter in Brusselis, Lisbon, Warsaw, Petrograd and several other cities in Europe, South America, and the United States
...Harvard Night," ranging in price from $6.50 to $2.00, may be obtained on application to the Secretary at the Music Building Office between 9 and 12 o'clock daily, or at the box office of the Opera House.STAR WHO PLAYS "ARCHIBALDO" ON HARVARD NIGHT VIRGILIO LAZZARI The talented basso who will take one of the leading parts in the performance of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" by the Chicago Civic Opera Company on February...
Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...