Word: tetrazzini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucia Mad Scene she whizzed there with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San Francisco's last great musical excitement, twelve years ago when chunky Luisa Tetrazzini sang for 100,000 at Lotta's Fountain (TIME...
...Tivoli in 1904, chunky little Luisa Tetrazzini made her U. S. debut and San Francisco thrilled with the pride of discovering her. But mention Tetrazzini to San Franciscans today and they will talk mostly of Christmas Eve, 1910, when she sang for the poor at Lotta's-Fountain, the ugly traffic impediment at Kearney & Market Streets, given by the late Lotta Crabtree who did her first trouping in California. More than 100,000 people heard Tetrazzini do her trills and cadenzas that night, without benefit of modern amplifiers...
...concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance of Tosca. Then will come the night which he hopes to make as memorable as the Christmas Eve when Tetrazzini trilled at Lotta's Fountain. Lily Pons will make her San Francisco debut, sing in Lucia di Lammermoor, the opera which introduced her to Manhattan one blizzardy January afternoon two winters...
Lily Pons insists that she will sing only ten years, then retire. With French frugality she should be able to. But even smart prima donnas find it hard to stop while they are successful. At 61 last year, Luisa Tetrazzini was singing in U. S. cinemansions...
...homely old lady should not have hesitated. She was Luisa Tetrazzini. But Tetrazzini had never counted on singing her farewell turn to cinemaddicts who scarcely knew of her. Tremblingly, with oldtime sweetness she sang "The Last Rose of Summer," hesitated, quavered when she came to "all her lovely companions have faded and gone." In her concerts ten years and more ago Tetrazzini had to sing encore after encore. . . the house darkened for a comedy called Oh My Operation...