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...Lombardi, Qualvolutta trascorrere and Attila, Te sol quest anima by Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza (Victor, $2.50)- A famed Metropolitan line-up sings early, rarely-heard Verdi...
Among the singers who will appear are Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Lucrezia Bori, Tenors Beniamino Gigli and Giovanni Martinelli, Baritones Lawrence Tibbett and Giuseppe De Luca, Basso Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...
...revival was a gala occasion. A throat affliction prevented Soprano Rosa Ponselle from appearing as Donna Anna. But Leonora Corona, pretty, fat-cheeked Texan, sang creditably if not brilliantly a role she had had only four weeks to prepare. Other interpretations were careful, unexciting. Italian Ezio Pinza made a dashing Don in brocaded breeches and wide-plumed hats, but his voice lacked the subtlety needed for Mozart's tunes...
...every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted in Italy, since they are "more of a nuisance than a benefit." The daring rebuker of Il Duce's favorite editor was Signor Ezio Maria Gray, President of the Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into...
...plays to match his music; because Italo Montemezzi sniffed the music in the lines, caught the magic of the mood and translated it for an orchestra; because tragedy melts easily into the rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, last week...