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...quite a U. S. grass-roots enterprise. But neither is it hog-tied to the St. Petersburg-Paris-Monte Carlo tradition, as Mr. Hurok's ballets are. Founded by scholarly Princetonian Richard Pleasant, secretary of the old Mordkin Ballet, the Ballet Theatre has had many backers including Dancer Lucia Chase, widow of President Thomas Ewing Jr. of big Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. Among the ballerinas, best are Philadelphia-born Karen Konrad and beauteous 22-year-old Texan Nana Gollner...
...Joyces (wife Nora, son Giorgio) lived in Paris. His daughter Lucia, who suffered from a nervous disorder, was in a sanatorium near St. Nazaire. A devoted father, Joyce worried much about Lucia, spent a good part of the income left him by Admirer Harriet Weaver on Lucia's doctor and sanatorium bills. When war broke out, he hurried to St. Nazaire...
...trills, roulades, la-la-las and rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most...
...France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued for the right to manage her, take 15% of her earnings, lost their case...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...