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Every winter Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company commandeers its best German singers, puts on with great success a series of Wagner matinees. This year for the first time an act from each opera in the cycle is being broadcast. On the stage last week Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many...
...Manhattan she will sing Tosca, hitherto regarded as the sacred property of Soprano Maria Jeritza, also tall, blonde, athletic, but no spitter...
...From news headlines casual readers might have thought last week that Soprano Maria Jeritza, Violinist Fritz Kreisler and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff had contracted for a radio series with National Broadcasting Co. But these artists have only become affiliated with N. B. C.'s Artists Service, an agency like any other which books flesh & blood concerts. Kreisler and Rachmaninoff are two of the three great artists who have steadfastly refused to broadcast. The third: Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
...year ago when Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was feeling the first serious effects of Depression, Franz von Suppe's light opera Boccaccio was taken out and dusted (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931). Soprano Maria Jeritza put on tights and the box-office felt temporary relief. Opera companies the world over have been lightening their repertoires lately. The Metropolitan's experiment proved so successful that it turned again to von Suppe, presented last week his Donna Juanita...
Donna Juanita, like Boccaccio, is the sort of operetta people enjoyed 50 years ago. It has a cluttered plot in which a French cadet (Jeritza) disguises himself as a woman, foils the British enemy and emerges a lieutenant. There are the usual marches, waltz tunes, love duets and. as in the remodeled Boccaccio, asides in colloquial English. Boccaccio was good for eight performances because the production was brisk, because earnest German singers looked funny cavorting about the stage, because light opera becomes the Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more...