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...been supposed that the Metropolitan would choose for its opening Fedora, Maria Jeritza's latest triumphant impersonation. But Signer Gatti-Casazza, shrewd impressario, had planned otherwise. Verdi, well-tried veteran, was called into service and Aida was the safe and sane choice, with a familiar safe and sane cast. There was no Caruso, no Farrar, no Jeritza. There was instead a new conductor, one Tullio Serafin, carefully discriminating and strangely energetic after the somnolent Mr. Moranzoni...
...Jeritza's triumph came later in the first week. Wagner's Tannhaüser was her medium. Never more beautiful to the eye, she succeeded in making the too-good-to-be-true Elisabeth almost pathetically human. Herr Laubenthal in the title role saved himself no effort, and therein lay his defeat...
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
...should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times...
...years thereafter, Miss Farrar, dark and passionate, made only concert appearances, while the fair-haired, blue-eyed, milky-armed Jeritza held the central position in the Metropolitan's female galaxy...