Word: tenoritis
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...Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly, rich-voiced woman who sings with authority and acts as if she thoroughly enjoyed being the life of the party. Back as the luckless Don Jose was Armand Tokatyan. for eleven years (1922-33) a leading Metropolitan tenor. Newcomer was pretty little Natalie Bodanskaya, 22, who grew up in a $9-a-month, cold-water flat in Manhattan's slums. Soprano Bodanskaya made her debut as the timid Micaela, won a warm ovation for her clear, fluty singing...
...leaked out from rehearsals that it was sure to be a rattling good show. The Marie was to be comely Muriel Dickson, who built up a following when she sang Gilbert & Sullivan with the D'Oyly Carte Company (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Her lover Hans was to be Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain...
...played with sure-fire effect by the Detroit Symphony men. Conductor for the occasion was dynamic Franco Ghione, who had traveled from Italy especially for The Dybbuk, seemed to have the score completely at his finger tips. Conventional was the pale-faced Hanan, interpreted by Frederick Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer was Rosa Raisa, whose Jewish blood helped her to look the part of Leah. Even so, her top notes were raspy, often insecure. The singer who did best by the English text was Contralto Pauline Pierce, a comparative unknown who took the part...
Inspired by its success with the Wagner Ring cycle last year (TIME, Nov. 4), the San Francisco Opera Association made plans months ago to repeat it next season, again engaged Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner...
...Offenbach *Minuet from the String Quintet Boccherini *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg "Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mastersingers of Nuremburg," Introduction to Act III Wagner *Second Hungarian Rhapsedy Liszt Two Indian Dances Skilton Song with Orchestra--"Fallen-Leat" (Sioux Prayer Melody) Logan Chief Ho-To-Pi, Indian Tenor "Sipapu," Ritualistic Indian Dance Hadley Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square