Word: gallie
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...brisk hunting choruses. Elizabeth Rethberg as Agatha swooned deliciously in her famous Prayer, and the incantations were made trebly hair-haising by being set amidst Josef Urban's haunting stage-sets. An added item was the immortal Invitation to the Walts, interpreted by the nimble-toed Rosina Galli...
...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...
Died. Signora Galli, 90, aunt of Pope Pius XI, at Milan...
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...