Word: debut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Giovanni has been played by such famed singers as Christine Nilsson, Marcella Sembrich, Lilli Lehmann, Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames, Edouard de Reszk?é, Maurice Renaud, Victor Maurel and Antonio Scotti, who 30 years ago made his U. S. debut as the Don. Critics everywhere name it one of the world's great operas, some say the greatest. Not for 21 years, until last week, had it been given at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
Last year when Ruggiero played publicly for the first time in San Francisco, all who heard him marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...musicians their reputations are uniquely and indissolubly bound into one. They are the only famed lutanists in the world. Spanish Composers Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Joaquin Nin have written music for them. Paris, London, Brussels have applauded their playing. Fortnight ago they made their U. S. debut in Manhattan. Last week seven other cities heard them?Boston, Princeton, N. J., Greencastle, Ind., St. Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into...
Musetta in Puccini's Boheme should be a kittenish, sweet-voiced soubrette. Italian Soprano Augusta Oltrabella, making her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, was kittenish enough but her voice was frequently hard, shrill, piercing...