Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have the good looks which cinema audiences, perhaps rightfully, demand. Other famed singers who have been successful in more or less serious vocal efforts for the sound-camera: John McCormack (Song of My Heart), a failure on the grand opera stage but a great concert attraction; Lawrence Tibbett (Rogue Song) a capable operatic baritone...
Already arrangements are under way for producing Peter Ibbetson at the Metropolitan next season. (''My guess," declared Composer Taylor, "is January or February.") Edward Johnson will create the role of Peter, Lucrezia Bori that of Mimsey. Lawrence Tibbett will have a part, probably the uncle...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...
Among the singers who will appear are Sopranos Rosa Ponselle and Lucrezia Bori, Tenors Beniamino Gigli and Giovanni Martinelli, Baritones Lawrence Tibbett and Giuseppe De Luca, Basso Ezio Pinza. Since no German operas are to be given on the road, German members of the company were left free to sail for Europe at the end of the home season. Proudest of those sailing this year should be Conductor Artur Bodanzky whose uncut performances of the Wagner Ring operas were the outstanding individual achievement of the season...
ROGUE SONG?Baritone Lawrence Tibbett makes a sound bid for cinema fame...