Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. last week went Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, not to sing but to lobby. As president of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., Mr. Tibbett sought the ear of the House Immigration Committee. Chairman of that committee is a citizen of Manhattan's lower East Side named Samuel Dickstein, who made his political reputation framing tenement and kosher food laws. Mr. Tibbett had come to persuade Mr. Dickstein & committee that the present arrangement by which foreign musical artists are permitted to perform in the U. S. is far from kosher to the musical profession...
...time only those who had tickets clasped tightly in hand stood a chance of being admitted to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Nowhere else in the world was there such a line-up of singers as the one announced for that evening. It included Flagstad, Melchior, Rethberg, Ponselle, Tibbett, Martinelli, Pinza, Crooks, Rothier, Nino Martini. Like the audience, the singers were there for only one purpose: to pay homage to Lucrezia Bori who was singing her farewell on the Metropolitan stage...
...roles which she has made peculiarly her own, Bori said her goodby. First she was Violetta in La Traviata, sacrificing her happiness on the plea of the elder Germont who was Tibbett bewigged. At the end she was graceful Manon, beguiling Tenor Richard Crooks until he gave up all thought of becoming a cleric. With what appeared to be the final curtain the audience was on its feet wildly cheering. But there was more to come. Stage had been set for the garden scene in Traviata. Flowers were everywhere. While members of the company stood by respectfully, Bori received rich...
...songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...
...last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...