Word: rosalinda
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...such ragged performances that it was often hard to believe that there had been any rehearsals. He presented young singers who were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared...
Medical affidavits filed with the court in Soprano Rosalinda Morini's $250,000 libel suit against Otto Hermann Kahn disclosed that he was abed at his Manhattan home, in serious condition with high blood pressure, angina pectoris, complicating pulmonitis...
Sued. Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan banker and grand opera tycoon; for $250,000 damages for alleged libel; by Rosalinda Morini, 26, coloratura soprano of Freehold, N. J. Last February Mr. Kahn was quoted in Miss Morini's advertisement in The Musical Courier as saying that she had "one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard." Also quoted were the words: "Metropolitan Grand Opera Co." Later Mr. Kahn denied making or authorizing any such statement and said the use of the Metropolitan's name was "evidently intended to exploit for Miss Morini's benefit the name...
...most rigorous training, learned stage technique and many rôles. While there she took a holiday at Ischl where the Imperial family spent its summers. The Emperor Franz Josef liked the opera, liked especially Die Fledermaus of Johann Strauss. He went one night when Jeritza was Rosalinda, sat attentive in his box, tapped his foot to the music, clapped loudly when she sang the Czardas. Three times Jeritza curtsied deep and began again. . . . The performance went on. ... Right triumphed over wrong. . . . The old Emperor beckoned an attendant: "Why have they always old, fat singers at the Hofoper? . . ." Soon Jeritza...