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Famed French musicians are few-the U. S. public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering...
...Guiseppe Danise and Leon Rothier will be summer residents of Glencoe...
...Only one of the Metropolitan Opera's artists, Basso Leon Rothier, is a Frenchman...
Feodor Chaliapin Leon Rothier...
...shooting. Consequently the music is calm, unruffled, graceful, cleverly scored. While it cannot touch Olympian heights, it remains colorful and suave. The performance. Ina Boúrskaya, as the heroine, injected as much warmth into her role as it could hold, presented what is called an "appealing" figure. Leon Rothier carried dignity and power to the figure of the beggar-father. Thalia Sabanieva, timid in her acting, sang with a certain restrained charm. Louis Hasselmans conducted. It was all rather weak tea, but nicely refreshing as Summer outdoor fare...