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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...
...roles which she has made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich...
Thus at the peak of her popularity did Lucrezia Bori, 48, quit the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. She announced last December that she would retire at the end of the season, said then that she had planned to leave when she was 45 but had stayed on to help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm...
...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...
...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...