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Since then, Trenton-born Gussie Seit, better known as Gloria Lane, has all but adopted the role of Carmen, and Milan's La Scala has adopted Gussie. Last week fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Lane demonstrated what it is about her favorite role that makes Latin blood rise...
...singers now in the Met's excellent chorus rarely falter, but when one does, standard procedure is to look for a cue from a buxom, 65-year-old mezzo-soprano named Marguerite Belleri. Says she: "If I cry, they cry. If I smile or attack, they do it, too." Last week, the company's senior chorister was honored for her 50th year with...
Three Regimes. Since that first Aïda, Mezzo Belleri (who was married to Tenor Lamberto Belleri, also a longtime member of the Met chorus until his death in 1945) has appeared in more than 100 different operas, often in as many as eight performances a week. And she has witnessed three management changes - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Edward Johnson and Rudolf Bing...
...memories are crowded with the kind of incident that the chorus is usually the first to notice - and the first to cover up: the time Dramatic Soprano Rosa Ponselle got carried away in the fight scene of Carmen's Act I and yanked two strands of Mezzo Belleri's braids out by the roots; or the occasion, in Liszt's rarely performed Saint Elizabeth, when one soldier lost his tights, causing Conductor Artur Bodanzky to go into such a seizure of laughter that the orchestra had to finish the scene by itself. During half a century, Mezzo...
Divorced. By Blanche Thebom, 40, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano: Richard Metz, 47, Wall Street banker; after nine years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...