Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role of Siebel, which is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano, is sung by a tenor. The reason for the change seems very logical, that...
...sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA" ADELE VASA...
...That 70-year-old Giuseppe Agostini redeemed an evening of Philadelphia Grand Opera. He stepped from the audience to the stage to sing the last act of Faust when Tenor Ivan Velikanoff was taken suddenly with bronchitis...
...That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar...
President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan peered patiently at the caged mouse in his living room. It rummaged among the shavings for tidbits. It reared and looked Dr. Little in the eye. But it did not sing for him, as Professor Lee R. Dice had said it could. Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the Mendelian stock...