Word: coloraturas
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...Chicago. It is rapidly becoming a convention for the critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch...
...their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini's Barber of Seville for the debut of Mme. Luella Melius, U. S. coloratura soprano. Many times has M. Rouche, Director of the Opera, attempted to revive this work; on each occasion, one of the 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...
...Insull's disciplinary methods lost to the company such singers as Galli-Curci, famed coloratura, Muratore, tenor...
...orchestras of famed concert halls, have cold faces, bright clothes. To brilliance, to frigidity runs their taste. Let a soprano pour out her soul in a fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took her out to supper on their shoulders; Jenny Lind -50 brilliant, chilly young...
...Carlo run opens at the Jolson Theatre on Sept. 22. Impresario Fortune Gallo will present standard repertoire, spiced by the appear ance of two important "finds" in the way of singers. Tina Paggi, Italian coloratura soprano signed up at Chicago last year, has just swept South America and Asheville, S. C, with enthusiasm and, it is said, has inundated box offices with buckets of real gate-receipt money...