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...went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora in L'Amore, Violetta in Traviata, Mimi in Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande. She is devout and, like most opera singers, superstitious. She has a wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does for the stage. She plays golf very seriously, loves...
Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...
...Baritone Robert Ringling,** son of the late Circus Proprietor Charles Ringling, nephew of the living John. He made a stout, pleasant "Tonio," not half so loud-mouthed as his size portended. The audience liked him, liked, too, Soprano Olga Kargau, wife of a Chicago merchant, who was a new "Nedda...
...Insull has permitted the casting of mediocre stars in fat roles. Mary McCormick is given such parts as Mimi in Boheme, Nedda in Pagliacci, Marguerite in Faust?all these roles being quite beyond...
...will be given outside of the regular subscription series, the Opera Association will not be able to furnish the usual low-priced seats. Tickets are now on sale at the box office of the Opera House. Caruso will sing the part of Canio in "Pagliacci," with Mme. Melis as Nedda, and possibly Antonio Scotti as Tonio. "Pagliacci" will be preceded by Wolf-Forrari's opera, "The Secret of Suzanne," in which Miss Nielsen and Scott will take part...