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...Lombardi, Qualvolutta trascorrere and Attila, Te sol quest anima by Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza (Victor, $2.50)- A famed Metropolitan line-up sings early, rarely-heard Verdi...
...chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing...
...Soprano Maria Mueller, Contralto Karin Branzell, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. The Metropolitan's season in Brooklyn will begin Oct. 28 with Puccini's Boheme (Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson); in Philadelphia the same evening with Ponchielli's Gioconda (Soprano Rosa Ponselle, Tenor Beniamino Gigli...
Last night Clare Clairbert, Belgian coloratura soprano in her U. S. d�but, sang coolly, sweetly, well the wanton Violette in Verdi's once frowned-on La Traviata, opposite Beniamino Gigli's capable Alfred Germont...
...Gioconda - Cielo e Mar and L'Elisire d'Amore - Una Furtiva Lagrima by Beniamino Gigli (Victor, $2) - Gallery grand opera by the tenor who does it best. Chosen by Victor as its May "Great Record-of-the-Month...