Word: schicchi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising...
Back to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after a six-year furlough, came Gianni Schicchi, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, last of an uninspiring triptych. Giuseppe De Luca was Schicchi, the canny peasant who, to oblige avaricious relatives, substitutes himself for the corpse only to double-cross them and leave everything to himself; was a good enough buffoon to keep people's minds off the diluted melodies sketchily flung together; and sent them home snickering...
...international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, given their première at the Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little from his fame. Tosca, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut are part of the regular repertoire of every opera company. Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. He left behind...
Gioconda for Rose Raisa, Le Prophête for Charles Marshall, Werther for Mary Garden, will probably be added to Chicago operatic repertory next season. Also it is likely that Don Carlos will be mounted for Chaliapin, Gianni Schicchi for Galeffii; Pearl Fishers for Schipa, Lucrezia Borgia for Raisa, and Pilléas and Mélisande for Garden and Baklanoff...
Operas scheduled: La Bohème, Andrea Chenier, Mefistofele, Tosca, Romeo and Juliet, I' Pagliacci, Rigoletto. Also Puccini's three new pieces, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi...