Word: mignon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well in advance, Lucrezia Bori scanned the countryside, found a house to fit her artistic requirements in fashionable Lake Forest. Bori operas: La Rondine, L'Amore del Tre Re, Mignon, La Vida Breve, The Secret of Suzanne...
...Bavaria, Lilli Lehmann started her career as a coloratura soprana. Bellini and Donizetti were her gods. Then she met a little man with burning eyes. He was her mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie were among her admirers. Still...
...voice has in some ways improved. She sang well as the mechanical bird in Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. She piped prettily through Mignon. But her big music has been little, the real art of singing something she has never seemed to grasp...
...been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Valse triste Sibelius Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes a. Les Chasseresses b. Pizzicati c. Intermezzo of Valse leute d. Cortege de Bacchus Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner Funeral Music of Stegfried from "The Dusk of the Gods" Wagner Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner Suite from "Carmen" Wagner a. Intermezzo b. The Dragoons of Alcala c. Prelude to Act 1 Russian Lullaby Berlin March, "Lorraine" Ganne