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...jolly-jowled Tenor Bjoerling (pronounced Bee-yorling) was one of the first singers to be engaged for next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured the U.S. in the "Bjoerling Male Quartet" with...
...another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
Verdi: Aïda (Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Gino Bechi, baritone; Italo Tajo, bass, and others with the Rome Opera Orchestra and chorus, Tullio Serafin conducting; Victor, 40 sides). With such a cast, Aïda should have come off brilliantly; instead, it just barely comes off, with some good singing (Ebe Stignani's) and some bad (e.g., Gigli's Celeste Aïda is painful). Recording: fair...
...Beniamino Gigli, 58, still one of the world's great tenors, who left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...