Word: rigolettos
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...Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces comes Wagner like a Titan, mightily marching...
...these truths were demonstrated afresh during the first week of the San Carlo season at the Jolson Theatre in Manhattan. Gallo provided the stuff that was expected of him, including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...
...Australian public ranked her "an amateur." So she departed for Paris in 1884, trained her voice−and studied hard−under the famed Mme. Marchesi, adopted the name of Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known...
Queena Marion Tillotson, born near Akron, Ohio, was called upon last week to substitute for Bori, famed singer. And later she sang, by her own right, the leading role in Rigoletto. Mr. Ziegler protested she had changed her name for euphonic reasons, and not because she thought a name with an "o" on the end would be to her operatic advantage. Anyway, says Mr. Ziegler, "Queena" couldn't be anything but American...
October's prospective five are: Andre Chenier, Manon, Traviata, Romeo and Juliet, Rigoletto...