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...success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...
...Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens. In Europe, London's Covent Garden opera season is now under way. It lasts until June 28. Two "Ring" cycles are being given, as well as Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Girl of the Golden West, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Norma, Gioconda, Boris. Conductors are Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza. Chaliapin heads the singers. The Paris music season, at its height from now through June, includes a series of performances at the Champs-Elysees Theatre by the Turin Opera Company, conducted by Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan. Germany...