Word: boito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three. Last week all three began the season. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, under new Conductor Emil Mynarski, presented Carmen in French with Sophie Braslau. The Philadelphia Civic Opera, under Conductor Alexander Smallens, gave Prince Igor in Russian with a Russian cast and ballet. The Pennsylvania Grand Opera gave Boito's Mefistofele in Italian. Most interesting to watch this year will be the Philadelphia Grand Opera, which begins its first season in cooperation with Mrs. Edward Bok's Curtis Institute of Music...
...Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week left Manhattan on a boat bound for Italy. Ship news reporters watched her sail away, and whatever they may have observed, reported nothing. Three days later, when Mme. Raisa...
...following program will be conducted by M. Agide Jacchia at the Pops concert tonight, held at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall: Coronation March Svendson Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven "Sometime" Fiorito-Jacchia Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito Capriccio--Burlesca Scarlatti (Orchestrated by Agide Jacchia) Procession to the Cathedral, Act II "Lohengrin" Wagner Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt Indian Summer, An American Idyll Herbert Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss
...made his worth recognized. Could he, some wonder, have achieved his phenomenal success simply on the merits of his voice? Samuel Chotzinoff in the New York World: "If Roland Hayes were a white man instead of a Negro, it is doubtful. , , ." Feodor Chaliapin sang the title role of Boito's Mefistofele at the Metropolitan for the 32nd time...
...March, "Father of Victory"Ganne 2. Overture "Light Cavalry" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito 4. "Tech" Songs 5. Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint Saens 6. Second Slavonic Dance Dvorak 7. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky 8. "Tech" Songs 9. Slection, "Rose Marie" Friml-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Dream of Love" Fahrbach 11. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar