Word: calved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...Calvé's Carmen, which she first flaunted at U.S. audiences nearly 50 years ago, is poorly preserved by her bosomy photographs or the cavernous sounds of her model-T recordings. One critic, the late Henry E. Krehbiel, better recorded her effect on the half-fascinated, half-scandalized audiences of her day: "She presented a woman thoroughly wanton and diabolically equipped with the wicked witcheries which explained, if they did not palliate, the conduct of Don José. . . . In some respects [she] left absolutely nothing to the imagination." Calvé herself loathed the role, but she sang...
Like Tetrazzini, Soprano Calvé tried to cash in on her name with a U.S. vaudeville tour, in 1927. Then she returned to Millau, where she owned a fortress-like château, to raise sheep, train younger singers, entertain elderly gallants. She sold the château before World...
Vichy dispatches were brief, but in her mountain village Emma Calvé had probably long been cold, ill, half-starved. Most old ladies in France are, these days...
Died. Emma Calvé, 83, soprano of "Opera's golden age"; in Millau, France...