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Mary Garden, who has sung with the Chicago Opera Company since 1910 will take part in this opera, in company with Fernard Ansseau, Georges Baklanoff, Virgilio Lazzari and others of lesser fame. Giorgio Polacco, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, and now chief conductor of the Chicago Company will be the conductor for the evening...
...Chicago, too, a conductor was the hero of the premiere. The presentation of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's opera, was a triumph not alone for the ever-popular Rosa Raisa in the title role, but chiefly for Giorgio Polacco, orchestral alchemist, who turned the good showmanship and occasionally melodiously inspirational score of Ponchielli's ponderous work into the semblance of a piece of true art. His genius not only led him to underscore the dramatic situations which are the opera's chief virtue, but to give rare opportunity to the singers themselves, chorus and principals, to make...
...which opens on Nov. 5. The season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing...
...head of the Chicago Opera is Samuel Insull, electricity and public utility magnate. The managing director is Mr. Polacco, orchestra leader. Mr. Polacco desired Galli-Curci to sing Dinorah when she opens in Chicago on Dec. 3, but Galli-Curci desired to sing Lakme...
...following program will be presented by Mr. Timothee Adamowski, violinist; Mr. Josef Adamowski, 'cellist; and Madame Szumowska, pianist: Dumky Trio, Dvorak Intermezzo Polacco, Paderewski Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Chopin Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Chopin Waltz in A-flat major, Chopin Trio, Chopin...