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Following its usual custom, the Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night," on February 3. "La Cena Delle Beffe" will be the presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...
...past years, the Company has arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night", which is on Thursday, February 3. On this occasion, "La Cena Delle Beffe", a great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent and which has never before been given in Boston, will be presented. Claudia Muzio, one of the foremost prima donnas, will sing the leading role...
President Ahmed Bey Zogu and Premier Cena Bey announced last week the signing of a treaty whereby Italy (which lies just across the Adriatic) guarantees the Albanian status quo for five years and each nation covenants to enter no agreement disadvantageous to the other. Jugoslavians whose frontier bounds Albania upon the north wrathfully descried in the new treaty a virtual Italian protectorate over Albania, something which Jugoslavia has long desired for herself...
...been turned into opera, La Cena Delle Beffe by Umberto Giordano, in which form, as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos...
...lavished his talent on scattered engagements. In 1915 he substituted for Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Later he was called to assist the great Cleofonte Campanini as director of the Chicago Opera, married Edith Mason, singer. Now he makes music out of even La Cena Delle Beffe...