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...Bloch Giovanni Martinelli...
...week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...
Metropolitan Operatic Males sailing from Manhattan for European vacations, last week, included: Antonio Scotti on the Majestic; Giovanni Martinelli aboard the Aquitania with Prompter Mario Marchesi; and, heading direct for Italy on the Conte Biancamano, Beniamino Gigli & Chorus Master Giulio Setti...
Obviously, a brief list. Every concert goer could amplify with Caruso, Scotti, Gigli, Martinelli, Jeritza...
...Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...