Word: cigna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue). Second act by short wave from Florence Music Festival with Gina Cigna and Beniamino Gigli...
...Louis orphanage, became a San Francisco motorcycle policeman in 1926. In 1930 Mine Ernestine Schumann-Heink admired his tenor voice. Four years later San Francisco Opera Director Gaetano Merola took Officer Stinson under his wing, called him a potential Caruso. Sympathetic professionals, including Singers Giovanni Martinelli, Gina Cigna, Kirsten Flagstad, pitched in to send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said he: "I hope someone hits me over the head with a baton when...
...Small, barrel-chested Baritone Carlo Tagliabue of Milan's La Scala appropriately strutted the proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...
...which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John Brownlee. The Coronation season was to last eleven weeks instead of the usual six. Yet in London last week curtains dropped on an opera season which, promising to be the best in years, had turned out to be the worst...
Covent Garden is grateful to Sir Thomas, for managing what should be its most successful opera season. For the first time in their history the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique will assist there. Metropolitan participants alone include Kirsten Flagstad. Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg. Lauritz Melchior and John Brownlee as well as Tibbett and Martinelli. Sir Thomas once lost ?1,000,000 of his own in opera. Aloof, disdainful, he ignores summonses and hotel bills, brings audiences to their feet when he leads the London Philharmonic, estranges them when he calls Britons the most unmusical people...