Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principals are better this season than last. It retains most of its stars, some of these of wide reputation-Anna Fitziu, Alice True Gentle, Marie Rappold, Sophie Charlebois, Bianca Saroya, Manuel Salazar, Taki Miura. It has made some noteworthy additions-the tenors Tommasini and O'Moore, the soprano Consuelo Escobar. Its productions are generally " good "- voices, orchestra, chorus...
Consuelo Escobar, who (with the San Carlo Company) has demonstrated a small, but pretty and very flexible soprano voice, is a native of Mexico, where she has sung with success. This success, she says, is the more praiseworthy because the Mexicans are biased against Mexican artists. Like natives of the U. S., they will patronize a foreign troupe enthusiastically, while a local company gain small patronage and less applause...
Mabel McKinley, American soprano, niece of the late President William McKinley, long a popular adornment of the vaudeville stage, has formed her own concert company and scheduled her concert debut for Oct. 7 in Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. Later she will tour. Her accompanist will be Charles Gilbert Spross; her violinist, Michael Anselmo...
Barbara Kemp, Metropolitan Opera House soprano, when she returns to the U. S. for her appearances during the latter half of the Metropolitan season, may bring with her Max Schilling, her husband. Schilling, as everyone knows, is the composer of Mono Lisa, the opera in which Mme. Kemp made her debut last season. It would seem that husband and wife strive in harmony...
...American soprano, Luella Melius, sailed for Europe for a year of concerting there. She will appear in Paris as Gilda in a guest performance of Rigoletto. Mme. Ganna Walska essayed the same role in Paris last year, with disastrous results. It will be recalled that there was some disturbance and even a mention of legal proceedings arising over the fact that Jules Daiber of New York, who had been Mme. Melius' manager, became the manager of Mme. Walska. Mme. Melius maintained that she had a contract with Mr. Daiber which bound him to render her exclusive managerial service...