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...swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte Carlo, the whole was almost reclaimed last week in Manhattan by the altogether pleasant production at the Metropolitan-by the gay, graceful Magda of Lucrezia Bori, by the caricatured poet of Armand Tokatyan, the brilliant Second Empire settings of Joseph Urban. Only Beniamino Gigli stayed out of picture. Squat and pompous he sang beautifully as the love-soaked Ruggiero...
...last week, after dimpled "La Talley" and dainty "La Bori" had kissed their hands a few last times to Manhattan; after flamboyant Martinelli had strutted through Pagliacci and pouter-pigeon Gigli had caroled Rigoletto; after Signer Gatti Casazza had proclaimed the past season his most successful ever, and his opera the best in the world, the Metropolitan entrained, trunks, bags and scenery, ultimately for Atlanta and Cleveland but for a first stop in Columbia's District...
...captive by gypsies. But she dimly remembers her home. This memory grows intense after she meets dazed Lothario, who really is her father, gone daft. Sportive Wilhelm Meister she grows to love, and flirting Philene she hates. Marion Talley, adequate as Philene, showed progress as an operatic actress. Lucrezia Bori, who sang Mignon last week kept merry an audience of 4,000, many of whom had been cradled to "Connais-tu le pays...
...Cleveland Orchestra, Nikolai Sokolov, conductor, will give 65 concerts beginning Oct. 21. Among the soloists will be Elsa Alsen, Alfred Cortot, Lucrezia Bori, Ruth Breton, John Charles Thomas, Respighi, Josef Szigeti, Dusolina Giannini, Efrem Zimbalist, Harold Bauer...
...Lucrezia Bori sang the title role of Manon Lescaut, and Giovanni Martinelli that of Des Grieux. Gennaro Papi conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...