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...November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...years Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there...
Miss Grace moore's charming presence, her excellent voice, the haunting, melodious main arias of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Bizet's "Carmen" all combine to make "One Night of Love" the very best of this year's musical films. On the merit of her voice alone Miss Moore has won a high place in the Metropolitan Opera's list of sopranos and in this, her first moving picture, she proves to be even more delightful on the screen than on the stage. She is deservedly the toast of New York, a beautiful lady with a glorious voice...
Friday Evening, May 11 *Triumphal March from "Aida"Verdi *Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssonn *"Madame Butterfly," Fantasia Puccini *Nocturne: "Festivals" Debussy *Overture to "Rieuzi" Wagner Chorus and Orchestra: The Snow Elgar Carnaval Fourdrain *"The Fortune Teller," Selection Herbert "People of Vienna" Ziehrer *First Hungarian Dance Brahras Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...