Word: jeritza
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Died. Lionel Powell, famed impresario who introduced Paderewski, Caruso. Chaliapin, Tetrazzini, Kreisler, Jeritza et al. to London, visited the U. S. 40 times during the course of his career; after an operation...
...Vestale, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, operas which might never have been revived if there had not been a voice with the range and flexibility of Ponselle's. She has still much to learn. She will never have the grace of Bori, the subtlety of Garden, the force of Jeritza. She has heavy Italian features, difficult to disguise. But her voice, critics almost without exception say, is the greatest to be heard today. It has brought her glamorous reward. Her concert earnings average $3,000 an appearance, her broadcasts $5,000 apiece...
...seen the Chicago Opera undergo many a vicissitude,† and at 38 (Mary Garden who left this year is 54) she may look forward to years more of good & bad times. Tall, swart, she has neither the chic of Lucrezia Bori nor the Viennese brilliance of Maria Jeritza: she looks Jewish, and like Soprano Alma Gluck and Contralto Sophie Braslau, is proud of it. Annually (except this year) she gives a concert of which the proceeds go to the Raisa Scholarship Foundation, for the musical education of one Jewish boy singer a year. Like many a great singer, she likes...
...seven younger Turkels in Woonsocket. R. I., had gone to Manhattan with a nebulous notion of studying singing. To pay for her living she got a job as candy clerk in the Metropolitan Opera House. During the acts she would sneak downstairs to listen to Ponselle, Bori, Jeritza. Now, a group of Manhattanites* are financing her for three years abroad...
...days after her Metropolitan audition last March Lily Pons had signed three big contracts: one for five years with the Metropolitan Opera, one with Victor Talking Machine Co., another for concerts with the Metropolitan Musical Bureau (managers of Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza, La Argentina). In France two people were proudly told the news. One was Lily Pons's mother, who after the father's death started a dressmaker's establishment in Cannes to provide for her three little girls, moved up to Paris when Lily decided she wanted to study piano at the Conservatoire. The other was Lily Pons...