Word: rigoletto
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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...
...soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans were well-pleased-with the first week list and the singers, with the able direction of Giorgio Polacco, with the fact that the subscription sale this year has been much greater than ever...
...Manhattan last week the operatic hat was taken from its leather case, dusted off a bit and tossed into the ring known most dignifiedly as the music season. Out of it jumbled Carmen, Aïda, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, II Trovatore, a bit stiff and worn from too much service, arranged themselves in auspicious sequence for the first week's repertoire of the San Carlo Opera Company...
Carmen did her turn first, did it well, won the praise of connoisseurs for the gratifying performance of Soprano Lorna Doone Jaxon, the general excellence of the ensembles. Aïda seemed depressed by the idea of her own popularity, sagged a little, but Rigoletto stepped along, vigorously, evenly. Then came Boheme, tender, lush; Cavalleria, primitive, sententious; Pagliacci, glittering, theatrical; Butterfly, effusive, incidental; and Trovatore fittingly climactic...
Operas performed or scheduled this summer at Ravinia: Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliette, Rigoletto, Faust, Martha, Aida, and The King's Henchman, a new opera (TIME, June 7) by Deems Taylor (score) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (libretto...