Word: rethbergs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance. Bodanzky, conducting, was at his best, drawing out the full possibilities of the noble horn quartet in the overture and the brisk hunting choruses. Elizabeth Rethberg as Agatha swooned deliciously in her famous Prayer, and the incantations were made trebly hair-haising by being set amidst Josef Urban's haunting stage-sets. An added item was the immortal Invitation to the Walts, interpreted by the nimble-toed Rosina Galli...
...next week Mr. Monteux has chosen Rachmaninov's long and too familiar symphony, a Habanera of Aubert, and the overture to Smetana's "Bartered Bride": Mme Elizabeth Rethberg will sing arias from Wagner and Beethoven...