Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosa Raisa (Chicago Civic Opera...
...Rosa Raisa Rimini (Chicago Civic Opera Company...
Soprano Rosa Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...Raisa sings some 80 roles; she began her career by studying coloratura as well as dramatic parts. Her favorites are Norma and Aida (she feels the "terrible oppression" they suffered), Rachel in Halévy's La Juive ("It is of my own land . . . my race, which in Poland suffered inconceivable persecutions") and Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna ("a vamp type . . . brilliant temperament of a feminine mind"). In 1924 Arturo Toscanini, then director of La Scala in Milan, offered her the leading soprano role in the world premiere of Arrigo Boito's posthumous Nerone. Regretfully...
Baritones are seldom heroes. In La Tosca Mme Raisa has many times stabbed Husband Rimini. In Otello he is responsible for her death by strangulation. Seldom lovers on the stage, Soprano and Baritone have been (for opera singers) amazingly felicitous in the home. Domestic as are few couples so loaded with fame, they would have found no fault last week with the colyumist's casual, stereotyped term, "blessed event...