Word: lohengrinned
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...seasons so as to get good singers, was last week in the middle of its ninth annual opera fortnight. It heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Russian Contralto Faina Petrova, Baritone Giuseppe Danise, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a bespectacled stage band in the triumph scene) ; a Lohengrin (Tenor Gotthelf Pistor, Soprano Maria Müller, Baritone Friedrich Schorr, all fresh from Bayreuth) ; Andrea Chenier and Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still...
...Nonetheless, he often contrives to take a banal situation-in this case that of an opera singer who loses his voice-and make apparent the underlying values which have caused it to become banal. The great tenor is a debauched and frivolous celebrity who calls his fox-terrier Lohengrin, enjoys entertaining ladies in his dressing room, and goes to South America without his wife. There he discovers, in a moment which might have been one of beery pathos, that he can no longer sing. When he gets back to Germany, fresh air and exercise help restore his voice. Played...
Humor is not lacking in mild forms. George Biddle, in a light composition entitled "Bringing Home the Cows" has contributed a highly entertaining piece. "Lohengrin" by Adolph Dehn will raise a smile, while his other lithograph, "Pont St. Michel" is a really striking piece of work, containing a great deal of feeling...
Died. William Gustafson, 43, U. S. born basso of the Metropolitan Opera Company (Sadko, Die Walkure, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde); by his own hand (revolver) after a quarrel with his wife over a milliner's bill; in Manhattan...
...dollars & cents, the Chicago Civic Opera's home season ended last week and its annual tour began. Two special trains and 18 baggage cars carried 300 souls and a million-dollar equipment to Boston, where big Emma Redell of Baltimore sang Elsa in the opening performance of Lohengrin. To follow were The Jewels of the Madonna, Die Meistersinger, La Bohème and de Falla's ballet L'Amour Sorcier, Pelléas et Mélisande, Die Walküre, Don Giovanni, The Masked Ball, Tristan und Isolde, Aïda, La Navar-raise...