Word: lohengrinned
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Chicagoans had never heard the German soprano when Mary Garden took her there in 1921. Because Director Campani persistently gave her Italian roles. Dux did not repeat her European triumphs. Critics never dreamed what a voice she had until she sang Elsa in a summer production of Lohengrin...
...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 him flat upon a painted ocean. In 1924 Curt Taucher, as Siegfried, was climbing the fire-girt rock when he unluckily stepped through a trapdoor...
...title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck (Leo G. Carroll) at Zurich. With Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista...
...evening. The prospectus glowingly announces that the organization has "a roster of incomparable artists, a brilliant chorus, the sensational corps de ballet, magnificent scenic productions and the famous San Carlo Opera Orchestra under the direction of the internationally renowned Carlo Peroni." However all that may be, they are giving "Lohengrin" tonight, "Madame Butterfly" on Thursday evening, "Rigoletto" on Friday, "Faust" on Saturday afternoon, and "Il Trovatore" on Saturday night. The scale of prices is low and a dollar can be put to good purpose in a ticket to one of the performances...
...flat major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust," and "Il Trovatore...