Word: beniamino
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenor Beniamino Gigli, who has refused all offers to sing over the radio, saying that it would take $50,000 to induce him to broadcast a concert, last week signed a contract to give the Christmas week concert of the Atwater Kent Co., Philadelphia, on Dec. 27. A curtain was held and the audience waited uneasily between the first and second acts of Herodiade at the Chicago Auditorium while call boys went to tell William Beck, baritone, that it was time to go on as Vitellius. Baritone Beck was not to be found in his dressing room. A messenger hurried...
...sore ailment, described on the programs as "indisposition," smote Tenor Beniamino Gigli just before he was to appear as Vasco da Gama in L'Africaine. Mario Chamlee sprang into the breach. Without rehearsal, without ever having appeared in the role on any stage, he sang it resonantly, fluently, confidently...
...Metropolitan Opera House will open on Monday evening, Nov. 2, with a performance of Ponchielli's La Gioconda with Rosa Ponselle, Jeanne Gordon, Beniamino Gigli...
...pillared magnificence of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. . . . an interior bepeopled, bejeweled. On stage: Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan tenor; Claudia Muzio, Chicago soprano. . . The music by Catalan! (Loreley). . . In the box with President and Mme. de Alvear, a pleasant Prince. For a further account of the season at the Teatro Colon, see Music, Page...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...