Word: tenore
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...Lucifer, or Nature−it was there as natural as morning, as awe-inspiring as the elements. A super-voice needs no claque, sirs, and what's more, this voice had none. Ask the box office of the Metropolitan Opera House who was the only tenor they had that could draw a capacity house or an overflowing one! Ask the standees who was their God! Ask anyone who had anything to do with the Metropolitan Opera House− chorus, orchestra, scene-shifters, soupers, who it was they adored...
Died. Jean de Reszké, 75, famed Polish tenor; in Nice, France, of heart disease (see Music...
Until 1917, no picks were used in playing the instruments, the beaujeaurine, which was plucked with the fingers, being the leading instrument. After 1918, the principal instrument of the Club came to be the modern tenor-banjo...
Giovanni Martinelli, tall, straight-featured, with long locks thrust back in waves from his forehead, is the six-foot incarnation of all Latin gallantry. He, many declare, is the only tenor who can play Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca without bringing angry tears to the eyes of disillusioned debutantes. He is now 39 and weight-well-distributed, fortunately -has come to him with his many honors. His repertoire includes virtually the entire operatic works of Verdi, Puccini and the leading modern French composers. His English, unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French...
...unfortunate accident which did not help his popularity. He makes his chief successes in the old, melodious, florid type of Italian opera. When all has been said, cultured Martinelli, Singer Gigli are both able, both popular, both have, it is said, like Caruso,- large paid claques. There is another tenor at the Metropolitan, Edward Johnson, Canadian, who sings well, has a good figure, acts excellently. His prestige is rapidly growing, but he has not yet attained the popularity of Gigli, of Martinelli. Who is the leading tenor of the Metropolitan...