Word: lucrezia
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...years after that of Chicago's Mary. She has seen the Chicago Opera undergo many a vicissitude,† and at 38 (Mary Garden who left this year is 54) she may look forward to years more of good & bad times. Tall, swart, she has neither the chic of Lucrezia Bori nor the Viennese brilliance of Maria Jeritza: she looks Jewish, and like Soprano Alma Gluck and Contralto Sophie Braslau, is proud of it. Annually (except this year) she gives a concert of which the proceeds go to the Raisa Scholarship Foundation, for the musical education of one Jewish...
...heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season's two remaining novelties: Soprano Lucrezia Bori and Tenor Edward Johnson in Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, and tall, dark French Soprano Yvonne Gall in La Basoche, Andre Messager's gay comic opera. Chicago believes that this season's deficit (last year's was $241,000) will be large as usual...
...Present were Conductors Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Walter Damrosch, Artur Bodansky, Ernest Schelling, Composers Deems Taylor, George Gershwin, Arthur Shepherd, Aaron Copland, Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (librettist of Darius Milhaud's Christopher Columbus...
...accuses Lady Marigold of witchcraft. As she is about to be burned he picks her up in his arms, strides into the flames with her. In the Metropolitan's production the feat will not be difficult if, as now seems probable, big Lawrence Tibbett is Wrestling and chic Lucrezia Bori plays Lady Marigold...
Throughout, Soprano Lucrezia Bori (the Duchess of Towers) acted with perfect grace, sang her English with very little accent. Hardworking, 56-year-old Tenor Edward Johnson was a sensitive, groping Peter, believably youthful. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Colonel Ibbetson) did a thrilling death. Joseph Urban's dream sets gave a happy, springtime effect...