Word: lilli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father to sell his Melrose store and, raking and scraping together some $30,000, set out for Europe on a cattle boat...
Awarded. To Margaret Halstead, Metropolitan Opera soprano: Austria's Lilli Lehmann Medal for artistic achievement (awarded four times before); at its annual music festival; in Salzburg, Austria...
...Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon at the end of a century when Jean De Reszke's dying Siegfried turned our hearts to water . . . and the Olympian Lilli [the late great Lilli Lehmann] caused us to remember always one of the things that Wagnerian sublimity can mean...