Word: bruna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting, with Linda Bruna Rasa, Luigi Marini and other singers; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Giordano's melodramatic, French-Revolutionary opera shows signs of coming back into U. S. favor. The present recording is rich in marinara sauce...
...three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini) from absolute mediocrity; dependable molasses-voiced Contralto Bruna Castagna (always affectionately regarded by Manhattan operagoers who knew her when she sang at the lowly Hippodrome) saved at least three operas (Samson et Dalila, II Trovatore, Norma) from a similar fate...
...present standards, however, pretty Bidu Sayao as Manon, Richard Crooks as Des Grieux, John Brownlee as Lescaut dished up a digestible version of Massenet's very Gallic score. Bruna Castagna, whose buxom, pleasant Carmen is the best Manhattanites have heard since the days of Geraldine Farrar, had a nearspat with Conductor Gennaro Papi when he tried to slow down her singing of the Habanera. But the incident passed off in mutual glares...
...ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...
...Cincinnati Zoo Opera spruced up its ten-week repertoire with Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman, offered such singers as Bruna Castagna, Anna Leskaya, Rosa Tentoni. Edward Molitore, Norman Cordon. Cordon, a North Carolina basso, used to sing on the Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy...