Word: scala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting, with Linda Bruna Rasa, Luigi Marini and other singers; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Giordano's melodramatic, French-Revolutionary opera shows signs of coming back into U. S. favor. The present recording is rich in marinara sauce...
Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Enrico Molinari, Mercedes Capsir, Enzo de Muro Lomanto and other artists, with orchestra and chorus from the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Most popular of all melodious old-time Italian operas, lustily performed by some of Italy's lustiest lilters. Judicious pruning has spared all the best bits. Highlight: Soprano Capsir's "Mad Scene...
...Small, barrel-chested Baritone Carlo Tagliabue of Milan's La Scala appropriately strutted the proscenium as Ethiopia's Ras Amonasro in Aida. Looking club-footed in high-heeled stage shoes, Mr. Tagliabue was not so bad that the critics had to boo him. But Gina Cigna (Aida) sang more than one of her Numi Pietàs a quarter of a tone flat, while greying Giovanni Martinelli (Radames) eked out aging vocal chords with a veteran's caginess...
...Masini worked once as a stevedore, then as a mechanic, was sent to Milan by admiring townsmen. He claims that he never took a singing lesson, that the Milanese taught him only repertory. He made a debut in Livorno (Tosca) in 1928 and has sung since at La Scala and other leading European opera-houses...