Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made her debut at her father's little theatre. At 12, she sang Azucena in 77 Trovatore, a performance in which her father was supposed to be her son. Last week Ferruccio Giannini sat in a box at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, proudly watched his daughter make a formal debut...
Last Saturday night Fox made his debut before the college audience at the Garden, when he went through jumps, spins, and several dance steps between the periods of the Yale game. Although he has only been figure skating for three years, Fox has skated all his life, being, as he puts it, "a reformed hockey captain from Rivers School...
Nearly half a century has passed since the Times first wrote of Hofmann. then a shock-haired youth of 10, who made his U. S. debut playing the Beethoven Concerto at the Metropolitan Opera House. Then the Times said: "Many people leapt to their feet. Pianists of repute were moved almost to tears. The child had astonished the assembly. He was a marvel...
Seldom has a prodigy been so unscrupulously exploited. After his amazing debut, Hofmann was booked for 80 concerts, played 52 before his health broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...important than Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior who must battle and die as Siegmund in Walkure, become the swaggering, youth ful hero in Siegfried, the valiant, mis guided pawn in Gotterdammerung, spend some nine hours on the stage in the course of the Ring production. Tenor Melchior made his Metropolitan debut the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1926. But a few hours later he was almost forgotten when Marion Talley first appeared on the same stage, won front-page headlines as a homespun Missouri miss who at 19 was deemed worthy of opera. The Talley bubble soon burst, while Melchior went...