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Armand Tokatyan, tenor, bit Mario Basiola, baritone, on the ear, one evening last week. That was all right, for they were performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Egyptian Helen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

GEMS FROM PAGLIACCI and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANIA -- Victor Opera Co. A mightly good way of acquiring good opera recordings inexpensively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoo Opera | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Verdi] with 146 performances led all the rest. Next came La Bohême [Puccini], 130; Madame Butterfly [Puccini], 127; Pagliacci [Leoncavallo], 125; Tosca [Puccini], 116; Cavalleria Rusticana [Mascagni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: And Mozart | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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