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...their farewell performances, the Studio Players will present "Fortunate," a brilliant play by the Spanish masters of comedy, Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, tomorrow and Saturday nights, April 1 and 2, at 8.30 o'clock in Brattle Hall...
...little to distinguish it from many which have gone before. The opera was Aïda, most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...
...Europe last week General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza summoned Manhattan pressmen to his office in the Metropolitan Opera House, majestically informed them that Verdi's A'ida would open the season Oct. 27. Singers: Soprano Maria Mueller, Contralto Karin Branzell, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca. Conductor: Tullio Serafin. The Metropolitan's season in Brooklyn will begin Oct. 28 with Puccini's Boheme (Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson); in Philadelphia the same evening with Ponchielli's Gioconda (Soprano Rosa Ponselle, Tenor Beniamino Gigli...
...Serafin in Symphony...
Unless an opera conductor blatantly offends, the average U. S. audience pays him scant attention, lets the general excellence of a performance go unmarked or attributes it to individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...