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Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils. He sped to Los Angeles where last week Surgeon Edward Russell Kellogg proceeded to remove them, to adjust, as he said. Tenor Schipa's "epiglottal space." Six weeks will pass before the operation's results will be known but then Dr. Kellogg hopes that Schipa will find the range of his voice higher by two or four notes...
Torchsinger Libby Holman's tonsillectomy had opposite results. Her voice became lower, huskier, made her Broadway's overnight rage. Tampering with singers' throats is always dangerous. If Tito Schipa's voice should drop like Torch-singer Holman's, he might have to renounce his romantic tenor roles, become a villainous baritone...
Tenor Tito Schipa, who sang leading roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company until it disbanded last spring (TIME, July 4), appeared in L'Elisir d'Amore as the timid rustic who gets tipsy on a love potion taken to help him win the village belle. Schipa was not so slapstick in the role as Tenor Gigli, whom he is replacing. His voice is lighter. But he sings Italian arias with the old-fashioned sentiment which the galleries adore...
...Drive, a separate corporation. Chicago Opera contracts have been on a yearly basis. An appeal for $500,000 failing last January, no new ones were made. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera took its pick of the available artists, signed up for next year Soprano Frida Leider, Tenor Tito 'Schipa, Baritone Richard Bonelli (TIME, May 30). Lately the Metropolitan engaged also German Soprano Lotte Lehmann and stately Contralto Maria Olszewska. The Philadelphia Opera will probably get Tenor Paul Althouse for at least part of its season, and Baritone John Charles Thomas who will also sing in concert and radio...
...company which gives opera every night needs several leading tenors. Tenor Gigli inherited many of his best roles from the late great Enrico Caruso. To succeed Gigli Mr. Gatti has chosen Tenor Tito Schipa, another short, plump Italian, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera.* Also from Chicago will come Frida Leider, great Wagnerian Soprano long coveted by the Metropolitan. Tenor Gustaaf de Loor and Basso-Baritone Ludwig Hofmann will strengthen the German wing. Four new Americans are on the list: Tenor Richard Crooks, Soprano Helen Gleason. Contralto Rose Bampton, Baritone Richard Bonelli. Three operas will be added to the repertoire...