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Rigoletto had big Chilean Baritone Carlo Morelli as the hunchbacked jester while Joseph Bentonelli (ne Benton) of Sayre, Okla. forced his light voice in an attempt to sound like the loud-mouthed Duke. The week's most inept performance was that of Gilda sung by San Francisco's Emily Hardy, who has been a member of her home company since 1933. In San Francisco Soprano Hardy has influential friends and on occasional appearances she has done herself proud. Chief trouble is that she has never developed a sound singing technique. Loyal San Franciscans admit that her voice...
...Philadelphia production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
Chicagoans knew them last week as Franca Somigli, Giuseppe Bentonelli and Anna Turkel. All three were young U.S. singers making their débuts with the Chicago Grand Opera...
...Giuseppe Bentonelli was Joe Benton from Sayre, Okla., who frankly admits that he changed his name to make it sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
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