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Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...
...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...
...these truths were demonstrated afresh during the first week of the San Carlo season at the Jolson Theatre in Manhattan. Gallo provided the stuff that was expected of him, including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...
Opera at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, will be repeated this Summer: June 19, Carmen; June 24, Aida; July 1, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci; July 8, Samson and Delilah; and six others. 12,000 seats will be offered at $1 each. The operas will be radiobroadcast...
...Week's program of the San Carlo Opera Company at the Opera House is as follows: Monday Caruera Tuesday Rigoletto Wed. Mat. Hansel and Gretel Wed Eve. Otello Thurs. Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci Friday Faust Saturday Mat. Lohengrin Saturday Evening La Gioconda...