Word: rigoletto
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...Dream Too Much (RKO) is an operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs...
Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...
...various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
...slipper, Mary Elisabeth Moore, a 21-year-old New Yorker, made her debut last week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills and cadenzas...
...told her to get rid of all but a "reasonable number," she had sold 21 of her 40 dogs, quieted the rest by bedding herself in the kennels at night. In St. Paul, an unidentified woman bought an extra seat for the Civic Opera Association's performance of Rigoletto, plumped her dog in it "because he loves opera...