Word: tosca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Reichswehr and police held every important point in the town. A performance of La Tosca was for bidden at the opera house, it being stated that conspirators intended to use the death of the tyrant scene as a signal for an insurrection. Much hostility toward the police was evinced by the crowds...
German currency is worth almost nothing yet $12 in American money was paid for good seats at the National Opera in Berlin when Mattia Battistini, the famous Italian baritone, now over 60, made his only appearance of the season. He sang the role of Scarpia in Tosca...
...evening. The number of performers is limited by the licensing authorities to six. There is a "producer" and the orchestra is said to be "excellent." Each week is to see a different "cycle" of operas, including Rigoletto, II Trovatore, Faust, Romeo et Juliette, Lohengrin, A'ida, Tosca...
Miguel Fleta, of Spanish and South American fame, was the important addition to the list of singers. As Cavaradossi in Tosca, he was received with an applause which Caruso might have envied. To Mme. Jeritza's hat and fine feathers he was a courteous if not impassioned lover...
...Antonio Scotti this is the 25th season. He is probably the most faultless performer on the operatic stage. His impersonation of Scarpia, killed by Tosca's dagger, is one of the peaks of the history of Opera. Today the voice of Scotti is not what it was ten years ago. But the art of Scotti is greater...