Word: rusticana
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...composer of Cavalleria Rusticana was conducting the premiere of Nero, his 18th opera. The occasion brought forth Italy wide acclaim because, besides having written one brief masterpiece, Pietro Mascagni has been a shrewd and ardent Fascist. Government authorities boosted the new opera long before it was performed, announced that Mascagni had captured ''the true spirit of Imperial Rome.'' Mascagni claimed that he had been mulling over the Nero theme for 40 years, that his enthusiasm had lately been rekindled by ''Fascist exaltation...
...conservatory alone. I was plugging at the piano, and I happened to play the 'Hymn to the Evening Star.' Then the Cardinal played the 'Pilgrims' Chorus' from Tannhäuser. Then it was my turn and I played 'Cavalleria Rusticana.' The Cardinal popped up and said he wanted to show me how it ought to be played, so he did. It was splendid. He has a good voice. He sang 'Marguerite' and 'Last Night the Nightingale Waked Me,' sort of humming them in a fine tenor voice. I didn...
With Salome over and no Metropolitan engagements to follow, Jeritza again astounded the music world and gratified her irrepressible nature by going to Boston to sing Cavalleria Rusticana and Lohengrin with Fortune Gallo's itinerant San Carlo Opera Company...
...Golterman, the man who founded the St. Louis Municipal Open Air Theatre with a week of Aïda in 1917. At Cleveland he planned to give three Aïdas. Sandwiched in between were three "prize packages" from La Gioconda, Carmen, Die Meistersinger, The Bartered Bride and Cavalleria Rusticana. Director Golterman gathered a goodly company of principals: Soprano Alida Vane (La Scala); Soprano Anne Roselle (Metropolitan) ; Contraltos Coe Glade and Constance Eberhart (Chicago); Tenor Paul Althouse (Metropolitan); Pasquale Amato, oldtime Metropolitan Baritone trying for a comeback; Contralto Dreda Aves (Metropolitan) for whom a horticulturist in her hometown of Norwalk...
Svelte, brunette, born at Boonton, N. J. in 1900, Helen Gahagan took up singing after theatrical successes in Young Woodley and Diplomacy. In Germany and Czechoslovakia she sang in Tosca and the part of free-&-easy Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, which was her role the fifth night in Cleveland last week...