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...chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others vulgarly shout: "Beniamino Gigli." Last week, in an advertisement for a concert, appeared Beniamino Gigli's name with the caption: "The World's Greatest Tenor." To such lengths had the chest-thudding come. More shouts, more murmurs followed. "With what right," asked many operagoers, "does...
...Giovanni Martinelli, tall, straight-featured, with long locks thrust back in waves from his forehead, is the six-foot incarnation of all Latin gallantry. He, many declare, is the only tenor who can play Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca without bringing angry tears to the eyes of disillusioned debutantes. He is now 39 and weight-well-distributed, fortunately -has come to him with his many honors. His repertoire includes virtually the entire operatic works of Verdi, Puccini and the leading modern French composers. His English, unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French...
...Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
...France (French)?Giovanni Martinelli, famed Metropolitan tenor...
Singers. On hand are Sopranos Jeritza, Matzenauer, Easton, Bori, Delaunois; Contraltos Wakefield, Howard; Tenors Gigli, Martinelli; Baritones Scotti, Wolf, Danise, Didur; Bassos Rothier, D'Angelo...