Word: rigoletto
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Tonight will be Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan night at the Pops concerts. The program which M. Jacchia, will begin at 8.15 o'clock as follows: Entrance, of the Gladlators Fucik Overture to "The Beautiful Galatea" Suppe Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi Suite "L'Arlesienne No. 2" Bizet a. Pastorale b. Minuet c. Farandole Canzone van Westerhout Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Song of India Rimsky-Korsakov (Solo English Horn: Louis Speyer) American Fantasy Herbert Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
From Cleveland to Rochester went troupers of the Metropolitan Opera Company last week, gave there their two last performances of the season-Rigoletto with Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...
...excitement, the girl who had provided the daily press with one of the best human-interest stories of the year?the new prima donna, 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, who for the big evening last week was supposed not to be herself but Gilda, daughter of Rigoletto, jester of the Duke of Mantua...
...rapidly becoming a convention for the critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses...
Mary Lewis is tall, dark. Her eyelashes are longer than those of most opera stars, her ankles slimmer. Her face is pretty in the strong sun of midday. She has 15 parts in her repertoire, including Louise, Manon, Marguerite, Mimi, Gilda (in Rigoletto), Antonia (in the Tales of Hoffmann), and Thais...