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...shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities upon the stairs; Anne Roselle was an amply emotional heroine...
...Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
...declare, is the only tenor who can play Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca without bringing angry tears to the eyes of disillusioned debutantes. He is now 39 and weight-well-distributed, fortunately -has come to him with his many honors. His repertoire includes virtually the entire operatic works of Verdi, Puccini and the leading modern French composers. His English, unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French admirable. When he recently returned to the Metropolitan after a long illness (TIME, Mar. 16) the musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their...
...Music, written by Conductor Ignatz Waghalter, smacks more of Puccini than of Sullivan, Offenbach or Johann Strauss. A sudden transition or two, a waltz emerging from a cantilena, a trio for three men in the first act, a machine-made quartet in the second-these were enlivening...
Died. Giacomo Puccini, 66, composer of La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut; in Brussels, Belgium, of heart disease. (See Page...