Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scheduled to make her debut earlier in the season, she was rehearsing with Grane, famed war horse, when she became tangled in its lead-string; there was a moment's scuffle, the horse stepped upon Mme. Larsen-Todsen. Mme. Muller, a 23-year-old soprano from Czecho-Slovakia, was loudly and justly applauded when she made her first U. S. appearance in Die Walk?...
...University Glee Club will sing at Symphony Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock, with Miss Dusolina Giannini, soprano, as assisting artist. Features of the program are the "Chanson a Baire" dedicated to the Club by Monsleu Poulenc, and "Tribulationes" by Virgil Thomson '22, now an assistant in the Music Department. The latter, though essentially modern, retains throughout the spirit of the 15th Century, the words being taken from an anthem in a collection of the Vatlean Choir...
...Edith Mason, because she is Conductor Polacco's wife, is given more performances than any other soprano...
Maria Jeritza, famed soprano, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, sang in Fedora. Opposite her played Tenor Gigli, one whose voice is like honey tapering from the underside of a spoon, but whose height is abbreviated. Now Jeritza, as all the world knows, is a queenly lady "tall as a tall church candle" (TIME, Jan. 5). Mr. Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli...
Among the stars taking part are Mary Garden, famous operatic soprano, who has been with the Chicago Opera Company since 1910, Georges Baklanoff, and Virgllio Lazzari, basso, who has been greeted enthusiastically by audiences during the Company's stay in Boston this winter. The conductor for the evening will be Georgio Polacco, who has acted as conducter in Brusselis, Lisbon, Warsaw, Petrograd and several other cities in Europe, South America, and the United States