Word: premi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan. While the Metropolitan was lavishing its resources last week on the revival of Pietro Mascagni's sleazy Iris (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli), the enterprising Opera Company which Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances in Philadelphia was absorbed in preparations for the most important U. S. premiére of the season. On March 19 the music-wise will journey from miles around to hear Alban Berg's Wozzeck, for five years the talk of Europe. Not a singer but Conductor Leopold Stokowski is bound to be the hero of the occasion. Conductor Stokowski's enthusiasm...
March 19-American première of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck, presented by Philadelphia Grand Opera Company; at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...great Ysaÿe had no time for the stage. He was busy being a master violinist, busy at symphonic conducting, busy at composing for violin or orchestra. But last week he would have given a great deal to have gone back to Liége for the premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio. One of his ablest violin pupils...
Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan première danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director...
Last week Hollywood donned emeralds and ermine and flocked to the world première of All Quiet. Afterward Hollywood went to Junior Laemmle's dancing party at The Embassy, formidably exclusive club of high cinema society. Lavish was its praise of Junior's picture. But privately it whispered professional misgivings. It whispered that the picture was too long; that it was too gloomy for the general taste; that the novelty of war pictures was gone. The true trouble was that All Quiet had been injudiciously heralded as the great epic of the War. Courageous and vivid...