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Unlucky Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
Metropolitan Revivals (Enrico Caruso. Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich. Antonio Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Louise Homer and others; Victor; 8 sides). Despite their mechanical and tonal obsolescence, Victor's oldtime recordings prove that the Golden Age voices were as beautiful as oldtimers claim...
Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...
...divas of the "Golden Age," only 71-year-old Olive Fremstad and 76-year-old Emma Eames were left. Emma Calvé had outlived Tetrazzini, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink by a few years, Melba, Nordica, Patti by many...
...roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft of the last two made the fun pretty heavy going. Lily Pons's principal worry is keeping her weight up to 105 lb., which she does by eating plenty of potatoes...