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What the late great John Pierpont Morgan banished from New York 25 years ago, the great golden-haired Maria Jeritza last week brought back?almost. In Europe the role of Salome in Richard Strauss's opera is one of the most celebrated of the many which Jeritza sings. For ten years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod...
Last week it was Jeritza's turn. She walked on to the Metropolitan stage and a great audience broke into terrific applause. She coaxed and beguiled the white-faced prophet in a voice expertly wanton. There was no scenery, no severed head on a platter but Jeritza sang-acted so vividly that people familiar with the Oscar Wilde story could easily imagine her crouching over the famed head, stroking its matted black hair, kissing the red lips...
...Jeritza bowed to the thunder of applause at the end. her smile might well have been tinged with cynical amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week...
Like football fans waiting to hear who will play in the backfield, Manhattan operagoers have been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave...
...York Times headlined a rumor that Soprano Maria Jeritza was also quitting the opera because of the salary cut. Manager Gatti-Casazza furiously denied this. Jeritza was one of the first to take the salary cut in the autumn. But her contract has expired, has not yet been renewed for the shortened 1932-33 season. The Times rumor appeared to be founded on the fact that Swedish Soprano Goeta Ljungberg, tall & blonde like Jeritza, is ready to sing Tosca next year, a role Jeritza usually sings...