Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geraldine Farrar has a new way of doing Carmen. She has eliminated most of the scenery and the choruses. The interest is centred entirely on the two principal characters, all superfluities being carefully eliminated. Her version was first used when she began her tour, Sept. 26, at Portsmouth, N. H., and was pronounced a success...
...Miss Carmen Tarilton, who has played and beaten both girls in their 16th year, concurred...
Geraldine Farrar's modernized version oi Bizet's masterpiece, Carmen (TIME, Apr. 21), will open at Portsmouth, N. H., on Sept. 26. After a tour of New England, it will enter Manhattan, surely with many triumphal trumpet-blares. The preliminary fanfare announces that this will be different from all other Carmens, including even Miss Farrar's own Metropolitan-Carman and her cinema-Carman. It will be an "operatic fantasie," with the score treated in a distinctly novel fashion and the whole production "completely severed from all operatic tradition...
...years ago the impetuous prima donna retired from the Metropolitan. She announced then that she would spend two years on the concert platform, after which she would stage her own Carmen. To this plan she has strictly adhered, without temperamental swerving...
Marriage annulled. The marriage of Count Jacques de Lesdain, Attaché of the French Consulate at Shanghai, to Miss Carmen Beley (Centralia, Ill.); at Paris. Her marriage, at 19, at Chabanor, Mongolia, in the presence of two Belgian missionaries, was held invalid...