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...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Lawrence Tibbett, young U. S. baritone who won fame overnight last year in a performance of Falstaff, succeeded Titta Ruffo as Neri in La Cena delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...
...remembered as four long acts of highly emotionalized mistaken identity. For the opera, Playwright Sem Benelli made a masterfully condensed libretto without a situation lost, a point unitalicized. By comparison, Composer Umberto Giordano's music was the trifling virtuosity of a clever parodist? saved by Messrs. Gigli and Ruffo...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...
...loss of prestige. The great stars whom Gatti found waiting for him when he took the directorship passed with the years ? Caruso died and Farrar left the organization. Stars as great have not arisen to take their places, yet the standing of the opera has gone higher. Titta Ruffo and Gallf-Curci have created no new glories for the Metropolitan. Among the newcomers only Jeritza has achieved something like old time Metropolitan stardom. It is here that we encounter an interesting phase upon which the coming season will have large bearing...
Campanini achieved fine success. He assembled a company of old Hammerstein stars and new ones of his own, one of the most brilliant companies ever assembled, with Mary Garden, Galli-Curci, Titta Ruffo, Muratore, Raisa, Baklanoff and others. He put on opera equal in general to the Metropolitan's best and in many respects more interesting. His New York seasons were awaited in the Metropolitan home grounds with eagerness. Though he did not make money for the company, did not "break even," he, nevertheless, achieved glories for Chicago, kept the peace in his company with suave authority, displayed great genius...