Word: bosetti
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Denver's big City Auditorium, a Roman-collared Catholic monsignor last week conducted an opera in which there were seduction, revelry, smuggling, stabbing. The opera was Carmen, 15th annual production put on by dark, bespectacled Monsignor Joseph J. Bosetti to raise money for Denver's Catholic Charities...
Italian-born Monsignor Bosetti went to Denver 30 years ago. He became music director of the diocese, director of the cathedral choir, which is permanently endowed by Socialite Mrs. Verner Z. Reed. Monsignor Bosetti's operas, which by now have run through the whole standard repertory, are" events for Denver, which otherwise hears only bedraggled touring troupes, and free, open-air summer productions sponsored by the Denver Post...
Monsignor Bosetti's operas cost $1,000 a night, fill the acoustically poor auditorium for three nights. Merchants buy plenty of space in the program, and the production usually nets the Catholic Charities $5,000. When the Denver opera season approaches, Monsignor Bosetti rolls up his sleeves, picks a cast strictly on merit; it turns out to be 75% non-Catholic. Ray Baber, leading baritone, is the son of a Protestant minister. Since amateur voices may get out of kilter, two or three singers alternate in principal roles. Of the three chosen for last week's Carmen...