Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four operas will have U. S. premieres this year at the Metropolitan. They are: Richard Strauss' Die Aegyptische Helena to be given Nov. 6 with Maria Jeritza as Helen; Ottorino Respighi's La Campana Sommersa to be given late in November, with Elizabeth Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli; Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf in January; Hdebrando Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo in March. Three operas return to the repertoire: Massenet's Manon in December with Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli; Verdi's Ernani with Rosa Ponselle and Weber's Der Freischiilz later...
Hitherto Carmen in Chicago has meant Mary Garden but it is a Garden whim never to open the season. Instead, as bait. Manager Herbert M. Johnson dangled the announcement of the U. S. debut of Contralto Maria Olszewska...
Olszewska's fame had preceded her. Many had heard her in Europe and brought home glowing tales of the big, impressive woman whose mighty voice could make Wagner almost as thrilling as the orchestra. More remembered her as the one who spat at Maria Jeritza three summers ago in Vienna. They recalled dimly the picture the press had given them then of an enraged Brünhilde storming across the stage, hurling invectives at two of her colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum...
With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...