Word: bori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nowhere else in the world was there such a line-up of singers as the one announced for that evening. It included Flagstad, Melchior, Rethberg, Ponselle, Tibbett, Martinelli, Pinza, Crooks, Rothier, Nino Martini. Like the audience, the singers were there for only one purpose: to pay homage to Lucrezia Bori who was singing her farewell on the Metropolitan stage...
...were spontaneous all week. Missing this year is the claque, that horny-palmed company of men who used to stand at the rail, pounding out ovations for the sake of free admissions or for a fee from individual singers. Missing from the stage next season will be Soprano Lucrezia Bori who, day after the opening, met reporters in Manager Johnson's office, informed them that she would retire in April. Miss Bori stated that she had always intended to retire when she was 45, that she is now 48, but that she stayed on to help the Opera through...
...first-night opera was Verdi's La Tramata which has long supplied Lucrezia Bori with the role best suited to her fluttering, enameled charm. Soprano Bori can do no wrong so far as her audience is concerned. As chief collector in the tin-cup campaign she was roundly publicized as the Metropolitan's "Little Savior." Paired with her was big Richard Crooks who sang smoothly, acted with increasing ease...
...executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson of the New York Sun referred this to Manager Johnson and his assistant Edward Ziegler: "These two men can run an opera house if they are allowed to. This assertion is made because it is not impossible that...
...Others: Mrs. August Belmont, Lucrezia Bori...