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Last week began Ravinia's 19th season, with a personnel including such international figures as Sopranos Lucrezia Bori and Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenors Edward Johnson and Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Leon Rothier. Again its conductors are Gennaro Papi and Louis Hasselmans, its chief dancer Ruth Page. Again the orchestra is taken from the Chicago Symphony. The repertoire will be chosen from 40 or more operas. New this year: Vittadini's Anima Allegra to be given with Bori, Smetana's The Bartered Bride with Rethberg, Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots with Soprano Yvonne Gall, leading soprano of the Paris Opera...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...Fifth annual festival of the Westchester County Choral Society; in White Plains, N. Y. Soloists: Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Pianist Percy Grainger...
Among the singers who will appear are Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Lucrezia Bori, Tenors Beniamino Gigli and Giovanni Martinelli, Baritones Lawrence Tibbett and Giuseppe De Luca, Basso Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...
...Manhattan when she appeared with Oscar Hammerstein's company, in Chicago. Geraldine Farrar sang the role a few times at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House but with her retirement it was dropped from the repertoire. Only last week was it revived there, this time for Soprano Lucrezia Bori...