Word: jeritzas
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When Maria Jeritza first came to the U. S. one of her great enthusiasms was for Wild West cinemas. In Vienna, Jeritza's home, one of her most successful roles is Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. What more natural, despite the fact that the opera failed miserably when given in Manhattan with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in 1910, than that Jeritza should want to give her version in Manhattan, that General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza should bill it as the first revival of the new season...
...premiere of this vigorous, ethical tale 19 years ago. Composer Puccini and Author Belasco were both present. Puccini was awarded an eight-foot wreath, Belasco was "divinely happy." Yet he declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised...
...Opera. He will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...
...Maria Jeritza, darling of Vienna, wanted a gold-brocaded dressing-room. At her own expense she ordered one at the Vienna Staatsoper. Last week, arrived at Vienna, she found no gold dressing-room, fell sick. Performances were postponed. The press blamed not the sickness but the unfinished dressing-room. Decorators were hurriedly corralled. Jeritza improved...
...harness." Opened, the bundle proved to be the complete outfit of a U. S. cowgirl, sent by Richard Schweppe of Los Angeles. Mr. Schweppe is vice president of the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera Company. In a letter to the Staatsoper, he explained that, ever since seeing Soprano Maria Jeritza last spring in Vienna in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, he had been disturbed by inaccuracies in her costume and unable to resist sending a genuine...