Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First practical consequence of the Twentieth Century-Fox merger of last summer, Metropolitan includes an aria from The Barber of Seville, The Road to Mandalay and Glory Road in plain clothes, excerpts from Faust and Carmen, all sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause...
...Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small...
...Lohengrin, Introduction to Act IIIWagner (Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn *Pavane Ravel *Carmen, Suite Bizet Aragenaise--Intermezzo--Gypsy Dance *Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *Fifth Symphony in E minor, Andante Cantabile Techaikovsky *Espana, Rhapsody Chabrier *"Music in the Air," Selection Kern *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Strauss *"Only One Vienna," March Schrammel Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard...
...entire orchestra will make the trip. Malcohn H. Holmes '28 will be the conductor, while James Ulmer '30 leads the Colby musicians. Included on the program are three Rumanian folk-dances by Bartok, two solos from Carmen, Bizet's opera, Beethoven's Allegretto from Symphony Number Seven, Handel's Fireworks Music, Lecuona's Malaguena, and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
...plump little Marcella Sembrich (TIME, Jan. 21). Of the living singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic trophies. The still lovely Emma Eames divides her time between Paris and Manhattan, occasionally revisits her old home in Bath, Me. Alma Gluck stopped opera-singing in 1912. Concerts and phonograph...