Word: caponsacchi
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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Caponsacchi, by NBC Symphony's First Violist Carleton Cooley, Saint-Saëns' Suite Algérienne, Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Johann Strauss's Voices of Spring. Conductor: Frank Black...
...premiere, Richard Hagman's Caponsacchi made few friends. His scoring for orchestra was exasperatingly derivative. The arias were few and far between, singers rarely being assigned more than four or five consecutive lines. Cimarosa's 145-year-old opéra bouffe, The Secret Marriage, had its Metropolitan premiere. It proved to be tenuous but gay, would have been gayer had singers not treated it like a period piece...
...full cast had gathered in the Opera House to rehearse for the 40th time the third act of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi, scheduled for its U. S. première this week. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett was singing the role of murderous Count Guido who stabs to death his wife and her parents. As he pretended to kill old Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied...
...have hitherto shied away from the formality and the high prices that prevail throughout the winter season. The first week was pronounced a definite success. Rehearsals were called for more productions: a revival of Gluck's Orpheus aiul Eurydice; the U. S. premiere of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi...
...Browning's "The Ring and the Book" which formed the plot for the production is materially preserved although considerably condensed. The essential idea of truth and the characteristic "live to make the world better" are still the motivating influences of the drama, but the discussion is confined to Canon Caponsacchi and his view of the case...