Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After such a taxing role as this any soprano has earned a rest. But next evening Flagstad went on again, as Elsa in Lohengrin, showing no trace of fatigue. The day after that, she became Isolde and sang her third major role in three days so freshly, so composedly that one would have thought it was her first...
...Podestá Guido Pesenti sat Respighi's plump, 43-year-old widow. Donna Elsa could scarcely see the stage for tears. When the performance ended, the audience roared its thanks to her, knowing that she had finished her husband's last work when he had to lay it down...
Respighi needed a few more days to finish Lucrezia when he died of heart disease. Elsa Respighi promised to write the last 42 pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...
...Donna Elsa stopped writing, content to help order Respighi's career. She stood proudly by when, in 1932, he put on his academic robe and became a member of Italy's Royal Academy (see cut). On their four U. S. tours she sang little beside his songs. In "The Pines," their villa high on the outskirts of Rome, she was first to sing his new compositions. Now she will write again to raise money for a music foundation in Respighi's memory...
Chicagoans had never heard the German soprano when Mary Garden took her there in 1921. Because Director Campani persistently gave her Italian roles. Dux did not repeat her European triumphs. Critics never dreamed what a voice she had until she sang Elsa in a summer production of Lohengrin...