Word: curci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...
...then the opera itself: L'Irlandesa Rosa dell' Abie with "Gigli as Abie," ''Jeritza as Rose," "Chaliapin as the Jewish Father," "Scotti as the Irish Father," "Galli-Curci as Mrs. Cohen." The words to nearly every high note...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and tour from coast to coast in a new series of concerts. What caused Chaliapin's decision may have been anything. It may have been Director Samuel Insull, whose alleged mismanagements have been loudly decried (TIME, Feb. 9). Last year, Amelita Galli-Curci, with a thin treble indication of wrath, similarly left the Chicago Company...
...Insull's disciplinary methods lost to the company such singers as Galli-Curci, famed coloratura, Muratore, tenor...
...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 men pulled her carriage up Fifth Avenue. Now Galli-Curci, who recently made her first English appearance before the coldest, the shiniest audience in the land. They did not even wait to hear her sing but met her steamer, conducted her to London with what the British press termed "unprecedented popular enthusiasm." She appeared before them to justify this reception...