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...summer capital of U. S. opera, rustic Ravinia Park just north of Chicago, opened for business last week. The Ravinia season lasts ten and one-half weeks, until Labor Day. Conductors this year will be Louis Hasselmans, Gennaro Papi, Eric DeLamarter. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be in the pit for every performance. Onetime Actor Edwin Strawbridge will head the ballet...
...half weeks is long enough to make it worth while for Ravinia's visiting artists to rent summer houses. North Shore residents were last week accustoming themselves to exciting new neighbors...
...Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark, N. J. June opens the summer opera season at St. Louis-light opera favorites such as The Chocolate Soldier, The Bohemian Girl. On June 22 begins the famed summer season at rustic Ravinia Park, near Chicago, with Impresario Louis Eckstein giving a classical repertoire with Metropolitan Opera stars until Labor Day. July. The twelfth season of outdoor concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, The Bronx, N. Y., starts July 5, lasting until August 30 under Conductors Willem van Hoogstraten and Albert Coates. On the Pacific...
...Chicago, sponsored by Louis Eckstein, there are the Ravinia Park concerts. When she arrived in Chicago, last week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...
Louis Eckstein is one of those extraordinary men who are able to associate themselves simultaneously and successfully with totally dissimilar enterprises. He publishes the Red Book; its staff regards him solely as an expert upon what the public likes to read. The men who help him with the Ravinia Park scheme never for a moment doubt that this is his principal interest in the world. Ever since 1913, when he started the concerts by engaging the Chicago Symphony for a summer, he has kept the programs of the Ravinia music. Now, when asked about the history of his Ravinia Park...