Word: beniamino
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...soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte Carlo, the whole was almost reclaimed last week in Manhattan by the altogether pleasant production at the Metropolitan-by the gay, graceful Magda of Lucrezia Bori, by the caricatured poet of Armand Tokatyan, the brilliant Second Empire settings of Joseph Urban. Only Beniamino Gigli stayed out of picture. Squat and pompous he sang beautifully as the love-soaked Ruggiero...
...17th season free of debt, with the strongest personnel in its history, the largest advance sale. Credit was given the 640 guarantors who comprise the Musical Association of San Francisco, whose individual gifts ranging from $100 to $5,000 make possible the 70 concerts with soloists as famed as Beniamino Gigli, Harold Bauer, Edward Johnson, Albert Spalding, Maurice Ravel. To Conductor Alfred Hertz the glory and the honor for his splendid stewardship...
...operas: Turandot, to open the season Oct. 31, with Maria Jeritza & Giacomo Lauri-Volpi; Korngold's Violanta, the first novelty, also with Jeritza, Nov. 5; on the same afternoon, Hansel und Gretel; Gioconda, to open the Philadelphia season Nov. 1, with Rosa Ponselle & Beniamino Gigli...
...Naples, Italy, the Baroness Appolonia Alessandra Markwiart killed herself. She left a note asking that the many photographs of famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli which cluttered her room be buried with her; and another note saying: "Don't perform an autopsy. Don't cremate me. Let me meet...
Last week in Manhattan, newspapers, billboards flaunted an advertisement: The World's Greatest Tenor would give a concert. The billboards carried pictures of a round-faced Italian with small, black eyes like pants buttons-a picture of Beniamino Gigli. He would sing, so he announced, favorite arias and "there is no tenor living who sings these melodious arias like Gigli. To hear any one of them is worth the price of your ticket...