Word: ponchielli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Respighi chose her to take the lead in his La Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term so she could be Donna Anna in a revival...
Marcia Reale ItalianaGabetti *Ballet Suite from, "Aida" Verdi *Serenade Toscelli *Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Aria, "Che gelida manina," from "La Boheme" Puceini Solist: Francesco Albanese, Tenor Rhapsody, "Italia" Casella *Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli *Waltz, "H Bacio" Arditi Dance of the Camorrists from "The Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Oberon" Weber Symphony in D Major No. 104 (London) Haydn Adagio-allegro Andante Menuetto Allegro spiritoso Interval ;Petite Suite Debussy En Bateau Cortege Menuet Ballet Andante eantabile from the Fifth Symphony Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" waltzes Johann Strauss "Dance of the Hours" from the opera "La Gioconda" Ponchielli...
TODAY IC Captain, MarchSousa Sicillian Vespers, Overture Verdi Liobestraum Liszt-Herbert Borodin, Ballet N. Tcherepnin Largo Handel Dio Fiedermaus, Overture Strauss TOMORROW Carmen, Prelude Bizet A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo Mendelssohn The Doluge, Prelude Saint-Saens Ballet of the Hours, Cloconda Ponchielli Artists' Life, Waltz Strauss Bolero Ravel
...would open the season Oct. 27. Singers: Soprano Maria Mueller, Contralto Karin Branzell, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. The Metropolitan's season in Brooklyn will begin Oct. 28 with Puccini's Boheme (Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson); in Philadelphia the same evening with Ponchielli's Gioconda (Soprano Rosa Ponselle, Tenor Beniamino Gigli...