Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carmen...
...spring of 1922, Geraldine Farrar left the Metropolitan Opera Company and automatically several of the Farrar operas disappeared from the repertoire. Carmen lingered on, endured several musty performances and snuffed out like the rest. For Carmen may have a handsome Don Jose, a swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
Seclusion. No one had believed her. Prima donnas rarely retire at the peak of their career. Still, for five years, Farrar has kept out of the limelight. True there was the concert tour, and an abridged edition of Carmen that toured for a while. But operagoers never lost hope. There have been rumors that she would return to Berlin, that she had already been invited to open the new Metropolitan Opera House. She herself has spoiled the stories.? For her, opera is finished. Henceforth she works in miniature. In opera she played chiefly from her heart, from...
...Farrar herself has taken turns in the cinema, won much praise for her Carmen, Maria Rosa, The Woman God Forgot, The Devil's Stone, The Turn of the Wheel, The Hell Cat, Shadows, The Stronger Vow, Joan the Woman, and The Riddle Woman...