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Cross-country skiing is no longer the exclusive province of its Nordic creators. Soviet and East German skiers are as adept as their Scandinavian counterparts in the double-pole technique, and equally sturdy. In fact, Zinaida Amosova, Galina Kulakova and Raisa Smetanina could effect a Soviet sweep of women's races. Sweden's Thomas Magnuson, a former lumberjack known as "The Slugger," Finnish Sports Instructor Juha Mieto and Norway's Oddvar Braa should win medals, but East Germany's Gerhard Grimmer is technically as skilled. Glim mer's teammate, Ulrich Wehling, skis and jumps consistently...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...
...smoothly-run performance of Halevy's La Juive, in which Tenor Giovanni Martinelli surpassed himself as the bearded old Jew while that plump, dependable songstress, Elisabeth Rethberg, took the part of the heroine who is finally plopped into a caldron, boiled in oil. In Chicago, Soprano Rosa Raisa was condemned to sizzle at the stake in Respighi's La Fiamma, proved her popularity by getting loud applause when neither her singing nor acting was more than mediocre...
...Conductor for the occasion was dynamic Franco Ghione, who had traveled from Italy especially for The Dybbuk, seemed to have the score completely at his finger tips. Conventional was the pale-faced Hanan, interpreted by Frederick Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer was Rosa Raisa, whose Jewish blood helped her to look the part of Leah. Even so, her top notes were raspy, often insecure. The singer who did best by the English text was Contralto Pauline Pierce, a comparative unknown who took the part of Leah's handmaiden...
...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...