Word: beniamino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most capital cities. This year its ten-week season will be distinguished by the performance of two complete Ring cycles, by the addition to the repertoire of Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re and Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Among new singers will be Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Edith Mason of the Chicago Civic Opera. Soprano Rosa Ponselle, sensation of last year, will return...
London, where from April 28 to July 4 opera will be given at Covent Garden. Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Tenor Beniamino Gigli are among the artists engaged...
Among the singers who will appear are Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Lucrezia Bori, Tenors Beniamino Gigli and Giovanni Martinelli, Baritones Lawrence Tibbett and Giuseppe De Luca, Basso Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...
When famed singers like Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci or Beniamino Giglo give concerts in Vienna they are usually paid $2,000 or $3,000 per appearance. When Al Jolson, mammy song singer, now vacationing in Europe, was asked last week by a Viennese manager to sing there, he replied that he would-for $5,000. Vienna refused the bargain...
...Pompous Beniamino Gigli was better as Don Ottavio; Elisabeth Rethberg sang primly as Donna Elvira, Editha Fleischer prettily as the peasant Zerlina. Credit for a satisfying performance, however, belonged not so much to the singers as to Conductor Tullio Serafin, who gave the score a glancing, crackling charm...