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Behind the fabled artists in the Metropolitan Opera's long history from Caruso to Nilsson, have stood thousands of other, anonymous singers needed to keep the show on the stage. They were the members of the chorus, providing night after night the necessary Egyptian commoners, the Parisian tradespeople, the Spanish factory girls and Russian peasants...
...With Caruso. While a generation of stars has come and gone, Chorister Belleri has slipped out of the stage door at night after the fall of the great golden curtain and boarded the subway for her home in Jackson Heights, often with a score tucked under her arm. "I always try to look my best on the subway," says...
...Singer Belleri was signed for the Met in the summer of 1910, while she was still a Munich schoolgirl. When she reported for duty that fall, she was, at 16, the youngest chorus member in Met history, made her debut in the 1910 season in Aïda, with Caruso. In those days, the chorus was bigger - 120 members - and the newest arrival was paid $24 a week, plus $2 for solos. In the present unionized chorus, Belleri earns around $155 a week and $15 to $30 for solos (although she makes only $5 extra for screaming that Turiddu...
Died. Chief Big Bear, 78, Cree Indian performer in Will Rogers' and Tom Mix's gusty Wild West shows, whose baritone voice was praised by Enrico Caruso for its "remarkable control and range," whose craggy profile became the Pontiac automobile emblem; in Indianapolis...
...Regularly $9.98, Special Only $3.98." Inside is a strange mixture of musical candies: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy singing Indian Love Call, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. Perez Prado, Tommy Dorsey and Perry Como rub grooves with Enrico Caruso, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Leopold Stokowski...