Word: cavallcria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...principals has fallen ill. Savoyards have murmured: "The Barber is a jinx." So formidable is this superstition that, if the Barber is revived, M. Rotiche will insure Mme. Melius against sickness. In Vienna, Maria Jeritza declared that Tenor Piccaver, with whom she had been singing in Cavallcria Ritsticana, had sabotaged her success, stolen her thunder, seduced her applause, refused to throw her down as his role demanded. Vienna papers recalled what had happened to Maria Jeritza when another embattled tenor, Beniamino Gigli, threw her, as his role did not demand, into the footlights of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME...
| 1 |