Word: manone
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...roles which she has made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich...
...returned to Spain, lived out of doors, burned countless candles to the Virgin Mary, waited for months without attempting to speak. When she returned to the Metropolitan in 1921 she established herself still more strongly with the Opera's subscribers. There was no one to excel her as Manon, Juliette, Mélisande, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème, Fiora in L'Amore...
...Producer Jesse Lasky and Singer Nino Martini to exhaust the world's supply of tenor music. True, Martini, after a few scales, goes into a popular piece Here's To Romance by Conn Conrad, but then he warms to this work. He sings Le Reve from Manon Lescaut, parts of Cavalier ia Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Mattinata. He throws in two more popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine...
Inconspicuous was the part played by the newest member of the Metropolitan family. Tenor Alexander Richard Crooks had had his share of recognition the afternoon before, when he made his Metropolitan début as the Chevalier des Grieux in Massenet's Manon. He had stopped the performance when he first came on stage, a tall, broad-shouldered, unaffected person unlike the run of chunky, strutting tenors. He had stopped it again with his quiet, tender singing of the second-act drama. He had taken more than 35 curtain calls, clinging tight to the hand of Soprano Lucrezia Bori...
...fallen to his lot to go upon occasion to such old favourites as Thais, Manon, or Le Jongleur of Notre Dame for he likes the gentle sadness of Massanet. But upon such occasions he has financed himself and stared down from the rafters at such a distance that personal criticism is rendered impossible. He had always wanted to see what happened down below there and at last after six years of waiting he was asked by friends...