Word: rosae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosa Raisa, whose majestic height has never been more beautiful than this winter, sang Toinette. It was a vulgar part, but Raisa was severely criticized for making it unnecessarily revolting. She seemed to lose the sympathy of her audience?for her, a new sensation...
...Rosa Ponselle sang in the season's premiere, La Juive, at the Metropolitan last week. She had not been heard in the role since Christmas Eve, 1920, when she assisted in the last public appearance of Enrico Caruso...
Carmela Ponselle (of Meriden, Conn.) made her début in Aida, while her sister Rosa sat applauding in a box. For the first time since the De Reszké brothers, two members of one family are Metropolitan stars...
...Manhattan. Rosa Ponselle, in the white draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
Meanwhile, as a background for the social business of the evening -antics of begemmed matrons, observations of a grim explorer, dreams of a musician who is Vice President of the U.S.-the suave, characterless music dipped along, helped with all the resources of Rosa Raisa's opulent voice. Giorgio Polacco conducted...