Word: jeritzas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
...winter sang the role of the "composer" in Ariadne, was snapped up by the Metropolitan, Halasz sent for Wilma. He had been watching blonde Suzy Morris* almost as long. "I had already decided that she had the finest dramatic soprano voice in the entire country. She is a young Jeritza. Everybody told me I was taking my life in my hands to produce an opera with two singers who had never in their life sung in opera, but I wasn't worried...
...same precocity, and a gift for melody. His ballet (The Snowman), composed when he was eleven, was produced in Vienna two years later. Before he was 20 he had written two operas. The Dead City, written at 23, won him fame throughout Europe, and a new star, Maria Jeritza, introduced it at Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Jeritza hit the Metropolitan Opera like a tidal wave. She sang the Vissi d'arte aria from Tosca lying flat on her face, the Seguidilla from Carmen flat on her back. In The Girl of the Golden West she rode a bronco on stage, and as Thai's she once celebrated her conversion to Christianity with a record high-jump that landed her in the hospital. All this musical whoopla endeared Jeritza to her public, if not to her fellow artists. Snorted Soprano Lilli Lehmann: "If you're a real artist you don't have...
...Morgan's Advice. In Salome, her most sensational European role, Jeritza literally cast off all seven veils. New Yorkers had to settle for less because the late John Pierpont Morgan, a Met backer, had Salome banished from the repertory at the advice of his pastor. This annoyed Jeritza into singing a concert version of the opera, which was at least wanton enough to give New Yorkers a vivid idea what they were missing...