Word: fiammetta
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...tunes which accompanied these goings-on were pleasant but not particularly distinguished. Composer Franz von Suppe (Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such...
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