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Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity...
...shrine, where the stodgy, Nazi-favored conductors of recent years were joined by an Italian, Victor de Sabata. In Salzburg, which Anschluss knocked off the list of international smart-spots, four of seven scheduled operas were to be given in Italian, two of them with Italian casts, under Tullio Serafin, onetime conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. In contrast with Salzburg's old days, there was only one non-Axis conductor, and he a Hollander-Willem Mengelberg...
...next season, probably his last, Manager Gatti has engaged a new conductor, Ettore Panizza, to replace Tullio Serafin. There will be six new singers: Tenor Dino Borgioli, German Soprano Anny Konetzni, U. S. Contraltos Kathryn Meisle and Myrtle Leonard, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson and Mary Elisabeth Moore. All but pretty little Mary Moore have had operatic experience. With a record of only one public performance (Baltimore. April 1933), she was engaged for five leading coloratura roles at the Metropolitan...
...contestants and the impressions they made on 20 artist-judges gave the occasion its importance. In the judges' chairs sat such worthies as Composer Arnold Schönberg, Conductor Tullio Serafin, Tenors Paul Althouse and Giovanni Martinelli, Sopranos Gertrude Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship...
Artur Rodzinski. Vladimir Golschmann, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Tullio Serafin. Soloists to come: Rosa Ponselle, Yehudi Menuhin, Efrein Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz. Lily Pons, Lucrezia Bori, Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Rethberg, Tito Schipa, Richard Bonelli...