Word: petrova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, which takes its opera between other cities' seasons so as to get good singers, was last week in the middle of its ninth annual opera fortnight. It heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Russian Contralto Faina Petrova, Baritone Giuseppe Danise, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, a bespectacled stage band in the triumph scene) ; a Lohengrin (Tenor Gotthelf Pistor, Soprano Maria Müller, Baritone Friedrich Schorr, all fresh from Bayreuth) ; Andrea Chenier and Madama Butterfly. There were to be seven more performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event...
...Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges Thill of the Paris Opera; Hans Clemens of Berlin. Baritones Claudio Frigerio, native of Paterson, N. J., trained abroad. Basso: Ivar Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
...Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung in Italian opera houses; Norwegian Basso Ivar Frithjof Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...