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Last week began Ravinia's 19th season, with a personnel including such international figures as Sopranos Lucrezia Bori and Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenors Edward Johnson and Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Leon Rothier. Again its conductors are Gennaro Papi and Louis Hasselmans, its chief dancer Ruth Page. Again the orchestra is taken from the Chicago Symphony. The repertoire will be chosen from 40 or more operas. New this year: Vittadini's Anima Allegra to be given with Bori, Smetana's The Bartered Bride with Rethberg, Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots with Soprano Yvonne Gall, leading soprano of the Paris Opera...
...Eckstein was determined. The second year of his administration he engaged the Chicago Symphony for ten weeks. Excerpts from operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden. To accept would have meant deserting Ravinia. Her answer was: "I go to Louis...
Chicago suburbanites from the apartment houses of Evanston to the mansions of Lake Forest have long felt just as Bori does about "the opera house in the woods." The place has a unique, informal charm. It is an outdoor pavilion but the stage is enclosed on three sides, thus preserving the details which in much outdoor music are so sadly smudged. People may come informally dressed, smoke through the performances, have soda-water between the acts. And they come in crowds- in limousines, by train, or on the trolley...
...Fifth annual festival of the Westchester County Choral Society; in White Plains, N. Y. Soloists: Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Pianist Percy Grainger...
Among the singers who will appear are Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Lucrezia Bori, Tenors Beniamino Gigli and Giovanni Martinelli, Baritones Lawrence Tibbett and Giuseppe De Luca, Basso Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...