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...Francisco, which takes its opera between other cities' seasons so as to get good singers, was last week in the middle of its ninth annual opera fortnight. It heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Russian Contralto Faina Petrova, Baritone Giuseppe Danise, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a bespectacled stage band in the triumph scene) ; a Lohengrin (Tenor Gotthelf Pistor, Soprano Maria Müller, Baritone Friedrich Schorr, all fresh from Bayreuth) ; Andrea Chenier and Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event...
...well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season...
Last week's fire was in a way fateful to Dr. Grenfell's work. It dramatized the stark necessity of the benefit the International Grenfell Association will produce Lt Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Friday, Nov. 21. Chief singers will be Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli. The opera : Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destine (The Power of Fate...
...Manhattan. The Metropolitan's opening had little to distinguish it from many which have gone before. The opera was Aïda, most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...
...symphony orchestra Tuesday evenings for Philco; the Los Angeles Philharmonic every Thursday evening over a Pacific Coast network for Standard Oil Co. of California. Of famed individuals scheduled to broadcast this season, many are sponsored by Atwater Kent (Contralto Louise Homer who sang last week, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Pianist Josef Hofmann, Violinist Albert Spalding, Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Rethberg...