Word: tosca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
...with the Metropolitan Opera Company, where she stayed until the spring of 1922. During that time she made countless thrilling moments: in Butterfly and Bohéme, in which she has never been matched; in Romeo et Juliette, when she sang the chamber scene in bed, on her back; in Tosca, after she had lighted the candle coming from back stage, a burning white line from the tip of the flame to her beaded train; in Carmen and Zaza, less artistic, perhaps, just as exciting; in Die Königskinder, a radiant creature in rags with long golden hair and a golden...
...Francisco. Twelve operas (no repetitions) constitute the San Francisco Opera Company's season, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1. They are Carmen, La Cena delle Beffe, Turandot, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Boheme, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Aida, Il Trovatore...
...program follows: I Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpins Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club II Am Sontag Morgen Brahms Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Brahms Von Ewiger Liebe Brahms Stornellatrice Respight Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Guar Nieri Vissi D'Arte from Tosca Puccini Miss Giannini III Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs: The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hampshire Arranged by Holst Madrigal Montwerdi O Isis and Osiris, from The Magic Flute Mozart Soloist: J. E. Gurney Four Choruses, from Patience Sullivan The Glee Club IV Four Italian Folk Songs Arranged by Vittoris...
Ganna Walska (Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick): "Belgrade, 950 miles distant from Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...