Word: fedoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's program will be as follows: 1. Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" Wagner 2. Overture to "William Tell" Rossini 3. Jota Stoessel-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "Fedora" Glordano 5. Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Rachem (Invocation) Manna-Zucca (Orchestrated by A. Jacchia) 7. Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" Rimsky-Korsakov 8. Ouverture Soiennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky 9. Selection, "Carmen" Bizet 10. Valse Triste Sibelius 11. French Military March Saint-Saens
Maria Jeritza, famed soprano, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, sang in Fedora. Opposite her played Tenor Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli...
...been supposed that the Metropolitan would choose for its opening Fedora, Maria Jeritza's latest triumphant impersonation. But Signer Gatti-Casazza, shrewd impressario, had planned otherwise. Verdi, well-tried veteran, was called into service and Aida was the safe and sane choice, with a familiar safe and sane cast. There was no Caruso, no Farrar, no Jeritza. There was instead a new conductor, one Tullio Serafin, carefully discriminating and strangely energetic after the somnolent Mr. Moranzoni...
...Esme, who has been nearly 40 years in the Diplomatic Corps, is tall, good-looking, gray-haired, gray-moustached, 60 years of age. On his arrival he was dressed in a dark gray fedora hat, a dark overcoat, blue suit, gray spats. His courtly manner had won him much popularity on the transatlantic voyage...
...Fedora. The expertly insulting Alexander Woollcott observed in honor of this production that the "To Rent" sign had been taken off the theatre and "To Rant" substituted. Fedora is a furiously emotional exhibit. It was played by Tilla Durieux (breast beater) ?in German. Just why it was produced nobody has been able to determine...