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...Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house in the world, in Germany, Austria, Spain, England, Holland, France. She made many visits...
Tullio Serafin, conductor, from La Scala, Milan...
Toti Dal Monte, soprano, from La Scala...
...midst of tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...