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...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
California takes its opera in concentrated doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera...
...Opera Association, well scrubbed politically and artistically, gave last week in the Civic Auditorium the first of twelve performances that will make up its fourth annual season. Martha was the happy choice, had worthy treatment by the imported principals, the domestic chorus. All praise went to Musical Director Gaetano Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera talent will...
...possession of a Diamond Horseshoe. The San Francisco Opera Association is rapidly raising $125,000 by calling upon generous westerners to become "Founders," at the price of $50 per head. Already 1,807 of the necessary 2,500 fees have been collected, and there is general jubilation. Maestro Gaetano Merola has been appointed producing director of the Association, and has already announced his program...
Grand opera in San Francisco in September will be followed by a season of five performances beginning in Los Angeles, Oct. 6. Principal roles will be sung by Metropolitan stars with Gaetano Merola of San Francisco as Director General and Conductor. Minor roles will be given to California singers. The orchestra and chorus will be trained by Alexander Bevani and William Tyroler. The same scenery will be used in both cities...