Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Music Clubs invited Soprano Rosa Ponselle to head the Honor List in their new Hall of Fame for rising U. S. artists. Hereafter, within the Federation, Nov. 15 will be known as Rosa Ponselle Day. On that day ten years ago Ponselle, daughter of poor Italian immigrants, made her Metropolitan Opera debut, singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino, with Caruso...
...University Glee Club will present the first of its ninth annual series of concerts in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock this evening. The assisting artist will be Madame. Margaret Matzenauer, contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company...
...University Glee Club will present the first of its ninth annual series of concerts in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock on Thursday evening. It will be assisted by Madame Margaret Matzenauer, contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company who will sing several solos...
Last week La Campana Sommersa, the music by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor...
...composer had the ovation. A sturdy, middle-aged Italian, Respighi had come to the U. S. especially for the premiere. Only in Heaven, he announced after the general rehearsal, could one hope for so perfect a production as the Metropolitan's. The Metropolitan's audience tried to return the compliment, called him again and again before the curtain. For critics The Sunken Bell was commendable, if unimportant, an opera to make one pleasant evening, if scarcely half a dozen...