Word: tosca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opera stars with all their trappings went last week from San Francisco to Los Angeles, set up shop there for a ten-day season. Tosca was the first opera with tall, blonde Maria Jeritza (Austrian Baroness von Popper) as the heckled heroine. Of a similar performance given a week earlier in San Francisco, Critic Pitts Sanborn of the New York Telegram wrote...
...Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, 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...
Ganna Walska, recovered from trunk troubles suffered at the hands of Manhattan customs officers (TIME, Oct. 8), permitted it to be announced last week that she would sing in Tosca in Washington Nov. 7 as guest artist with the American Music Drama. Walska performances have been promised before, to Chicago and Manhattan, but hitherto something has always intervened.† Walska herself claims acute stagefright...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
...Verdi] with 146 performances led all the rest. Next came La Bohême [Puccini], 130; Madame Butterfly [Puccini], 127; Pagliacci [Leoncavallo], 125; Tosca [Puccini], 116; Cavalleria Rusticana [Mascagni...