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...Ethiopian Aïda, Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang her music with fine regard for line and feeling. As her Egyptian rival, Maria Olszewska made a voluptuous Amneris. Lawrence M. Tibbett was in blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti had a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, onetime conductor of the Scala in Milan. Conductor Panizza is a lean, sparse-haired...
...contestants and the impressions they made on 20 artist-judges gave the occasion its importance. In the judges' chairs sat such worthies as Composer Arnold Schönberg, Conductor Tullio Serafin, Tenors Paul Althouse and Giovanni Martinelli, Sopranos Gertrude Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship...
...many of its best musicians have taken safer jobs with other orchestras. The San Francisco Opera Company has been held up since Depression as a model to every opera-giving city in the U. S. It has had world-famed singers, this year Lucrezia, Bori, Claudia Muzio, Giovanni Martinelli, Ezio Pinza, Gertrude Kappel, Cyrena Van Gordon, Lawrence Tibbett. It has its own ballet, expertly trained by Adolph Bolm. It has usually managed to pay its way although this year, to no one's great concern, it ran up a deficit of $30,000. The Symphony hopes to square itself...
...benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
Three years ago a young Italian girl went up unannounced to the Manhattan apartment of Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, rang the bell and asked for a ticket for that night's performance of La Juive. Signora Martinelli was sympathetic, asked the girl why she thought she should have one. She got the very positive answer that it was because the girl intended to sing the role herself some day. Signora Martinelli asked her to come in and sing, was so impressed that she immediately proceeded to round up backers for the girl's study abroad...