Word: galli-curci
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...banks of the Colorado River, borderline of Arizona, Amelita Galli-Curci, was halted by Arizona authorities. She was only one of thousands so stopped...
Revivals include Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier's Louise; Verdi's Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart's Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats...
...Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...
With great phrases about the dignity and sensitiveness of the artistic soul, Mme. Galli-Curci announced that she will sing with the Chicago Opera Company no more. The disagreement began, it will be recalled, with a quarrel about the opera with which the soprano should begin the present season (TIME...
...added by way of parenthesis that the only man who understands how to handle artists sympathetically-and, it might be added, firmly-is Mr. Gatti of the Metropolitan. In confirmation one might point out that there are no public disturbances at the Metropolitan-not even by Galli-Curci, who sang her first performance for the season at the Metropolitan as Lucia...