Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hallie Stiles is a not unlovely young woman from Syracuse who sings soprano and has made herself a name at the Opera Comique (Paris). Her banker-husband has modified his life to suit hers...
Married. Edith Mason, Chicago Civic Opera soprano, divorced wife of Giorgio Polacco (the opera's conductor), and Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein (orthopedic) of Chicago; at Antioch...
Emma Otero, 19-year-old Cuban, educated at Cuban government expense, was honored by a flag-draped hall and a telegraphed introduction from Cuban President Gerardo Machado: ''We are sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano Otero was unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring...
...first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
...Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one knew, with Edward VII and others. Moral protests arise where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years...