Word: lucrezia
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...Lucrezia Bori sang the title role of Manon Lescaut, and Giovanni Martinelli that of Des Grieux. Gennaro Papi conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...dramatic detail, the young De Falla wrote his opera, years before he was capable of El Amor Brujo or El Retablo de Maesa Pedro,** before he had any real understanding of the theatre, when music of one kind or another was all the same to him?simple, lovely, languorous. Lucrezia Bori, herself as black-eyed, as Spanish as any Spanish gypsy girl, was Salud?lovely, languorous, like De Falla's music and the sleepy, colorful settings of Joseph Urban...
...Melisande, which is perhaps the most artistically perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...
...During the first week two 'novelties' will be given in a double bill LHeure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel, with Lucrezia Bori; followed by Der Barbier von Bagdad by Peter Cornelius. . . . During the second week the first Metropolitan performance will be given of Gasparo Spontini's opera, La Vestale...