Word: ganna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American soprano, Luella Melius, sailed for Europe for a year of concerting there. She will appear in Paris as Gilda in a guest performance of Rigoletto. Mme. Ganna Walska essayed the same role in Paris last year, with disastrous results. It will be recalled that there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service...
...most extraordinary episodes of recent musical annals was witnessed at the Paris Opera the other night. Ganna Walska appeared on the stage of that old and famous opera house in the extremely difficult role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. The historical institution, scene of so many great operatic triumphs, was crowded with aristocrats who wished to listen to what was certain to be a most interesting performance...
...opera. To achieve this desire she has waged a prodigious battle. She has had failure after failure on the operatic stage; yet she has persisted, and has set an unusually strong and tenacious will to gain her ambition, until the question has been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing...
...conclusion is inevitable: Ganna Walska is beautiful; she exerts a powerful fascination; she has wealth. What more can she want? She wants, with all the passion of a strong, ambitious nature, to sing in opera. And she has no voice...
...Ganna Walska. She has wealth, beauty, power; but still is human in her winters and summers of discontent...