Word: tetrazzini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless C's above high C. Among high coloraturas of the past half century, Luisa Tetrazzini was one of the most famed for her high F#. Half a dozen years ago, however, in the small provincial opera at Bielefeld, Germany, a newly-hired soprano sat practicing cadenzas at a piano, inadvertently sang up to a high G. Surprised, she tried some more, later that day discovered...
Wearing his familiar navy-blue beret, offstage Fisticuffer Johnson told newshawks he thought old friends like Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri and Lucrezia Bori were as pleasing to the eye as the artistes of the current season. Of Tetrazzini, whom he considered the greatest woman singer, Mr. Johnson remarked, "They'll never replace her. She was fat and clumpy, but she needed not beauty...
...city, then of the Great Fire (i. e. earthquake) with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...
...prima donna roll-call were taken this week there would be no answers from the great singers of 50 years ago. The last to die, at a rich old age, was plump little Marcella Sembrich (TIME, Jan. 21). Of the living singers no longer singing there remains mountainous Luisa Tetrazzini who in Italy squabbles publicly over money with her 34-year-old husband. In France there is old Emma Calvé, proud with the assurance that her Carmen has never been surpassed. In a walk-up studio in Bronxville (N. Y.), great Olive Fremstad lives grimly surrounded by her operatic...
...suit filed in Rome by Pietro Vernati, 33, estranged husband of Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, 62, to restrain her expenditures on the ground that she is a "megalomaniac squanderer" (TIME, July 10): rejection...