Word: rimini
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Sophie Braslau Giacomo Rimini...
Milan heard it first, then Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Rimini, Buenos Aires, Berlin. Last week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great...
...starting May 18. This company, dubbed the American-Italian-French Grand Opera Company, has secured the services of Mary Garden and Rosa Raisa, also of Elvira de Hidalgo, Toti dal Monte, Queena Mario, Lucille Chalfont, Grace Moore, Yvette Ruzel, Vanda Nomicos, Eva Clark, Mary Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo Rimini, Giuseppe de Luca, Adamo Didur, Georges Baklanov...
...about 37, a critic told him that he was past his prime. In his mind, at these unkind words, he heard the dwindling strophe of the heart's small drum, tapping into silence up an empty street. He sat down to write his tone-poem, Francesco da Rimini. Down in Hell's gilded street, the phantoms jostle; winds squeal like demented fiddles; ghosts squeak like dismal flutes; and lonely in the company of lovers who have sinned for love and have been damned for their sin to remember forever the joy of love's delight, Paolo...
...season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing...