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...second-act climax played with sure-fire effect by the Detroit Symphony men. Conductor for the occasion was dynamic Franco Ghione, who had traveled from Italy especially for The Dybbuk, seemed to have the score completely at his finger tips. Conventional was the pale-faced Hanan, interpreted by Frederick Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer was Rosa Raisa, whose Jewish blood helped her to look the part of Leah. Even so, her top notes were raspy, often insecure. The singer who did best by the English text was Contralto Pauline Pierce, a comparative unknown...
...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...
Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
First of the summer operas was Aïda with Anne Roselle and Frederick Jagel of Manhattan's Metropolitan, Giuseppe Martino-Rossi and about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...