Word: lescaut
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...Including sometimes-sensible Critic George Bernard Shaw, who hailed Puccini as the successor of the great Giuseppe Verdi, when Puccini's Manon Lescaut was given its first London performance...
...present standards, however, pretty Bidu Sayao as Manon, Richard Crooks as Des Grieux, John Brownlee as Lescaut dished up a digestible version of Massenet's very Gallic score. Bruna Castagna, whose buxom, pleasant Carmen is the best Manhattanites have heard since the days of Geraldine Farrar, had a nearspat with Conductor Gennaro Papi when he tried to slow down her singing of the Habanera. But the incident passed off in mutual glares...
There is nothing obscure about the theme, which is the masterly study by Dumas fils of a young girl who leaves the country for Paris, comes to love luxury and beautiful surroundings, and resorts willingly to free love as a means of achieving them. After the manner of Manon Lescaut, she sees no object in marriage even after Armand captures her heart and they spend an idyllic summer in the country at the expense of his chances to obtain a diplomatic position...
...Producer Jesse Lasky and Singer Nino Martini to exhaust the world's supply of tenor music. True, Martini, after a few scales, goes into a popular piece Here's To Romance by Conn Conrad, but then he warms to this work. He sings Le Reve from Manon Lescaut, parts of Cavalier ia Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Mattinata. He throws in two more popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...