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...visiting Italians was buxom, blonde Ebe Stignani, whom many European critics consider the greatest mezzo-soprano of the day. She was superb in Il Trovatore, and she even lifted a drab production of La Favorita. After Favorita one critic said that Stignani could make Three Blind Mice sound like celestial music...
Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity...
...Paul, J. J. McGinley '13 Francois, W. Gleason '13 Bourges, J. A. Hovey uC. Maugendre, E. D. Smith '13 Louveau, M. T. Quigg '13 Vose, P. S. Abreu '11 Heredia, W. S. Henderson '12 THE NEW AGE." Henry Dickson, P. D. Smith '11 Jim Anderson, T. A. Jenckes '13 Ebe, B. Morrison '12 Mrs. Cochrane, Miss Hermine Foelske Anne Cochrane, Miss Elizabeth Lee Mrs. Dickson, Miss Marian Gragg An Old Man, J. M. Halle '13 "THE HIGHER GOOD." McAdley, J. Weare 1L. Easy Joe, N. r. Sturgis '12 Bill, the Bum, H. C. Simon sL. The Governor...