Word: rigoletto
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Much of the complaint fell upon the pretty Belgian head of Vina Bovy, the coloratura soprano who stepped into the part of Gilda in Rigoletto 24 hours before the performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett...
...When Rigoletto was repeated last week. Soprano Bovy proved that she could sing truly if not more evenly, but she still seemed pathetically unequal to Tibbett. A German opera saved the week from mediocrity, when Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years. Save for Hans Clemens, who sang the Steersman in the last production, all the principals were new to the Metropolitan in their parts. Flagstad took the role of Senta for the first time in her career and made it unforgettable. Warmest praise went to Baritone Friedrich...
...organization has "a roster of incomparable artists, a brilliant chorus, the sensational corps de ballet, magnificent scenic productions and the famous San Carlo Opera Orchestra under the direction of the internationally renowned Carlo Peroni." However all that may be, they are giving "Lohengrin" tonight, "Madame Butterfly" on Thursday evening, "Rigoletto" on Friday, "Faust" on Saturday afternoon, and "Il Trovatore" on Saturday night. The scale of prices is low and a dollar can be put to good purpose in a ticket to one of the performances...
...major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust," and "Il Trovatore...
...favorable showings. Contralto Anna Kaskas won an engagement in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, a series of broadcasts sponsored throughout the winter by Sherwin-Williams Co. (paint). Basso Norman Cordon, a towering North Carolinian, was impressive as the ill-used father when he pronounced his curse on Rigoletto, did even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product...