Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a picture which, made in Hollywood, concerns itself with the hopes and perplexities of Paris drama students. Unlike the moppet personnel of Ballerina, the personnel of Dramatic School are full-grown young actresses. Unlike the cast of Ballerina, mostly made up of real students in the French National Opera school, the cast of Dramatic School are all Hollywood professionals, most notably Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard...
Meanwhile the Chicago Opera, No. 2 in the U. S., chalked up the fourth week of its finest season since the plush & ermine days of Samuel Insull. Impresario Paul Longone, who was almost thrown out three years ago, had also taken a cue from the stockmarket and climbed slowly & steadily back into favor...
While socialites donned their stuffed shirts and tiaras for the opening sessions of Manhattan's new opera season (see above), five of the season's 14 singer-debutantes lathered themselves with greasepaint for their first appearances on the Western Hemisphere's most celebrated stage. To dowdy singers who have already appeared on other famous stages, debuts still rate second only to the Christian sacraments...
...debutant gave thrills to the audience as well as to himself: stocky honey-voiced Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling who had appeared three times previously with the Chicago Opera. Since 1932, when famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli was painfully extracted after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been chewing its tenor arias with bare gums. Thirty years ago when the Met had Caruso, Bonci and Slezak, Tenor Bjoerling would have been as superfluous as a wisdom tooth. But as the French poet Rodolfo in La Boheme, Swede Bjoerling took his top notes in the best Italian manner. His hearers...
Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...