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...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
...operatic voices really worth recording dwindled to a handful. One great voice that lasted long enough to be well recorded was Soprano Claudia Muzio's. Probably no living soprano (she died in 1936) approaches the vocal assurance and dramatic power recorded here in arias from Norma, Traviata, Forza del Destino, etc. Recording: good...
...fire was in a way fateful to Dr. Grenfell's work. It dramatized the stark necessity of the benefit the International Grenfell Association will produce Lt Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Friday, Nov. 21. Chief singers will be Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli. The opera : Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destine (The Power of Fate...
...Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson (TIME, July 28), Felice Lattuada's Preziose Ridicole, Moussorgsky's unfinished Fair at Sorotchinsk, Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Mascagni's Iris, Rossini's William Tell and Verdi's La Forza del Destino will be revived...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...