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There are six new singers. Sopranos are: Clara Jacobo, born in Italy, brought up in Lawrence, Mass., for three years member of Gallo's San Carlo Opera Company; Pearl Besuner of Cincinnati, for five years with the Cincinnati Zoo Opera; Ai'da Doninelli, Italian, who three years ago came from Central America and settled in Chicago, to make her debut the first week in A'ida. Mezzo-sopranos: Grace Divine of Cincinnati, first week debut in Manon Lescant; Jane 'Carroll (nee Helen Howard) of Louisville, Ky., alumna of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus and The Vagabond King, to make her debut...
Some 15 years ago a small Italian, Gallo his last name and Fortune his first, took a ragged opera company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been...
Uncle & Nephew. Fortune Gallo, for 17 years owner and director of the San Carlo Grand Opera Co., has given over his holdings to his nephew, Aurelio. This year the Manhattan autumn season will be omitted, the Company going on tour Sept. 26. Meanwhile Uncle Fortune will build a new theater on 54th st., Manhattan, where, if the structure is completed in time, the nephew's Company may be seen in a spring engagement...
...double arcade with Doric pilasters below and Ionic pilasters and columns above, this motif running around all four sides. The model for this double arcade has been furnished by the front of the presbytery of the Church of the Madonna di San Biazio, by Antonio da San Gallo at Montepulciano...
Into a Manhattan brownstone house that creakily yearns for the better old days, clump musicians of the Gallo Opera Academy. Thirty, sometimes 40 of them with viols, horns, drums, assemble in the large front room-a small symphony orchestra. Giuseppe G. M. Gallo heads the academy, directs the musicians to their places, hands out scores, worries his white moustache. When all is ready, there is a pause. The orchestra waits for the little child to lead them. He is Ottavio Arturo Gallo, 8, son of Headmaster Gallo. In his life, he has not had time to learn how to read...