Word: riccardo
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Born. To Helen Jepson Dellera, 35, comely Pennsylvania-born soprano; and Walter Dellera, 30, her second husband, Elco (marine) engineer: their first child, a son, Riccardo (after his grandfather, the late Metropolitan Opera maestro Riccardo Dellera); in Manhattan. Weight...
...rightful share in deforming the music to fit the large symphony orchestras to which he is accustomed. Or again, this year the Boston Symphony, too proud to use his arrangements, performed a reasonable facsimile thereof when they used two Bach Preludes that had been rearranged for String Orchestra by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli...
...written by Giuseppe Verdi in the 1850s to a play by Scribe which dealt with the assassination of Sweden's King Gustavus III. Because of trouble nearly a century ago with Italian censors, the libretto of Masked Ball was given a U. S. background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel...
...Metropolitan had taken a deep breath, returned Masked Ball to its rightful Sweden. Riccardo (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling) was further identified on the program as Gustave III. But the Met's restyling stopped there. The chorus, singing in Italian, hailed the king as "son of England." The conspirators (historically Counts Horn and Warting) were still Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night...
...annual meeting of the Circolo Italiano d1 Harvard, held last evening in the Phillips Brooks House, William Paul Constantino '32, of Clinton, was elected president for the coming year. Valerio Riccardo Montanari '33, of Newton, was elected first vice-president, Paul Miceli '32, of New London, Connecticut, second vice-president, John Irwin Beaumont, II '33, of Cleveland, Ohio, secretary, and Paul Catinella '32, of Belmont, treasurer...