Word: rigoletto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rigoletto" was the opera chosen for the opening night. The settings were conventional, a trifle simplified; the costumes constrastingly brilliant. But the manner in which the opera was sung and acted make the strongest impression of the evening: from the lighthearted courtly dance as the curtain rose, to the tragic closing duet of Gilda and Rigoletto, Mr. Franchetti conducted a group of singers that understood not only the musical but the dramatic possibilities of the work. Joseph Royer as Rigoletto, after passing easily through the opening scene, played his role with tremendous power. Mr. Onofrel was appealing as the Duke...
...program of tomorrow evening's concert follows: I Extase Ganne Humoresque Dvorak From the Canebrake Gardner II Rigoletto Verdi-Listz Sharada Anderson III Aderation Borowski Viennese Melody Kreisler Spanish Dance Sarosafe
...January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
...last week, after dimpled "La Talley" and dainty "La Bori" had kissed their hands a few last times to Manhattan; after flamboyant Martinelli had strutted through Pagliacci and pouter-pigeon Gigli had caroled Rigoletto; after Signer Gatti Casazza had proclaimed the past season his most successful ever, and his opera the best in the world, the Metropolitan entrained, trunks, bags and scenery, ultimately for Atlanta and Cleveland but for a first stop in Columbia's District...
Married. Mimi Brokaw, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan clothier; to Richard Derby Tucker, grandson of the late Dr. Richard Derby; in Manhattan. Died. Trajan Grosavescu, Rumanian tenor, after singing "Woman is Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt...