Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) rests in peace at Canessa Tomb, Naples, where he may be seen by visitors with special permission. Last week in Paris hard-singing Tenor Tito Schipa announced that the body would be exhumed and redressed by friends every three years so that Caruso might always appear fashionably garbed...
...great enthusiasms was for Wild West cinemas. In Vienna, Jeritza's home, one of her most successful roles is Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. What more natural, despite the fact that the opera failed miserably when given in Manhattan with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in 1910, than that Jeritza should want to give her version in Manhattan, that General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza should bill it as the first revival of the new season...
...repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...
...attended the Cleveland School of Art and then one day met the Norwegian painter Henrik Lund, who scorned orthodox artistic education and advised him to strike out for himself. Geddes began painting portraits of such people as Brand Whitlock, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Mme. Galli-Curci, Enrico Caruso, and a dozen others, but having a mother and younger brother to support (he was then 20 years old), he got a job in a Detroit Advertising agency. He was ousted when the president discovered that Mr. Geddes spent many office hours dictating dramas to the presidential private secretary...