Word: ternina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boers in South Africa. In Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...
...take the midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannh...
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