Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flowing white robes of a Druid priestess, Rosa Ponselle, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, waited in a dressing room of London Covent Garden last week. She tapped her foot, tried her voice, added a touch of carmine to her cheeks, adjusted the green wreath on her flowing black hair. Tomorrow her British debut would be over. Tonight she must face the coldest public in the world, a public which had not heard Norma since the late great Lilli Lehmann sang it in London 30 years before, Lehmann who had said: "I would rather sing all three Brünnhildes than...
...Baclanova's perhaps necessary death in the last scene was not caused by the poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano voice that was once justly celebrated in Moscow. Silliest shots: the hysterical colonist who complains that Africa is strangling him; Baclanova whimpering with passion to the strophe of African drums...
Married. Mrs. Marcia Gluck Clark, of Manhattan, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck Zimbalist; and Russell Wheeler Davenport, novelist (Gentleman King); in Manhattan...
...Directrix Lewis is not to be confused with Mary Lewis, 29, onetime Follies brunette, now a Metropolitan Opera soprano...
...familiar names are absent from the list of members for next season: Florence Easton, soprano, has asked for a year's rest; Titta Ruffo, baritone, has gone into the "talkies"; Feodor Chaliapin will not return until season after next; Marion Talley is retiring" to a farm...