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Cincinnati, May 7-11, Biennial May Music Festival, Frederick Stock musical director; Cincinnati Symphony and such soloists as Florence Austral, Schumann-Heink, Paul Althouse, Dan Beddoe, Lawrence Tibbett in such works as Mendelssohn's St. Paul (oratorio), Bach's Magnificat, and a Wagner program...
...Washington for its annual visit went a traveling company of the Metropolitan Opera. Of greatest interest and familiarity to President and Mrs. Hoover was Singer Lawrence Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera in the casts, such famed ones as Elisabeth Rethberg, Edward Johnson, Ezio Pinza, Tibbett, Jeritza, and the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet...
...performance provoked discussion. The musty old sets had been discarded for new ones by Joseph Urban. Edward Johnson was a handsome Don Jose. Lawrence Tibbett was a swaggering Toreador. Editha Fleischer was a wistful Micaela...