Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one opera star in Chicago sufficiently distinguished to have her future family recorded, and surely her name is Mary Garden. Yet it was not Mary Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week left Manhattan...
...Rosa Raisa, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, who sailed April 13 for their villa near Verona, Italy, are expecting the birth of a child next August...
...despatch did not reveal the fact that Rosa Raisa would return to America in time to insure her child a U. S. birthplace...
...Rosa Raisa...
...Chicago Opera will stay at home, give their five regular subscription series Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees, a new series of twelve Sunday matinees and six or seven Friday night performances. No new operas have been announced, but there will be several revivals: La Navarraise (Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor...