Word: muzio
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...arranged a special performance for "Harvard Night", which is on Thursday, February 3. On this occasion, "La Cena Delle Beffe", a great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent and which has never before been given in Boston, will be presented. Claudia Muzio, one of the foremost prima donnas, will sing the leading role...
...provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life and opera. Not less effective was Luigi Montesanto who boasted loudly, loved violently, killed mercilessly, in the person of Neri Chiaramentesi...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company competently negotiated the first week of its repertoire. Aida was the first to be taken out of storage, dusted and dressed in all its Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden...
...annual two-week's engagement of the Chicago Opera Company at the Boston Opera House will open Monday night with the production of Giordano's "Andrea Chenier." Claudia Muzio, Charles Marshall, Cesare Formichi, Augusta Lanska. Irene Pavloska, and Vittorio Trel visan will take part in the performance, which will be conducted by Georgio Polacco...
...pillared magnificence of the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires. . . . an interior bepeopled, bejeweled. On stage: Beniamino Gigli, Metropolitan tenor; Claudia Muzio, Chicago soprano. . . The music by Catalan! (Loreley). . . In the box with President and Mme. de Alvear, a pleasant Prince. For a further account of the season at the Teatro Colon, see Music, Page...