Word: jeritzas
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Sopranos Frieda Hempel, Maria Jeritza; Contraltos Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer; Baritone Reinald Werrenrath; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This time the stripper was Helen Jepson, streamlined Pennsylvania-born soprano. Critics approved Soprano Jepson's singing and her French diction but thought she undressed with a Pennsylvania accent...
...voice and mine blended so completely that they became one voice. The voice of humanity-male and female-joined into one." (Marion Talley): "If ever a child had a God-given voice, that girl had it. But intelligence about using it? That's something else again." (Maria Jeritza, who she says asked her for voice instruction): "No. You and I are friends now. But if I started to teach you we wouldn't be friends. Let's leave it at that." (Ganna Walska, who made the same request): "Learn to cook. You'll never...
...action as well as the music. It is surprising that more artists are not hurt, especially during rehearsals when they are working up routines, yet Grand Opera mishaps are usually more silly than solemn, and provide people with amusing table talk. Metropolitan devotees still chuckle over the impetuous Jeritza who kept falling and singing arias from unlikely positions. Oldsters remember how, in 1905 at the Met, the bridge across which Carmen was to make her escape suddenly collapsed and sent 15 members of the chorus sprawling. When Georg Anthes was singing Lohengrin in 1903, his swan-boat upset and flung...
...mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing...