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Thais. Mme. Jeritza opens the Metropolitan opera season Monday, Nov. 5, in Thais (Massenet). Aida (Verdi) will be given on Wednesday; La Tosca (Puccini) on Thursday; Die Meistersinger (Wagner) on Friday; Romeo et Juliette (Gounod) on Saturday afternoon, and Rigoletto (Verdi) on Saturday night...
...reigned in conjunction with a Queen of Opera?Jeritza. This lovely lady was likewise the adored of Vienna. Gatti engaged her for New York's Metropolitan. It is said that there were negotiations about Piccaver's coming to the same institution, but that he demanded much money, reasoning that his high place in Viennese opera was secure and that the U.S. is a hard land to conquer, especially for an American. Jeritza came, and he remained the undisputed master of the upper Danube...
...Jeritza's contract with the Metropolitan allowed her to sing in Vienna during the off-season period. Jeritza returned from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made...
Last Spring Jeritza returned after her second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
...Jeritza" (Baron Leopold Popper) : " In Vienna my wife, Maria, Metropolitan Opera star, underwent successfully an operation for appendicitis...