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...Tannhäuser her exuberant Elisabeth dominates the stage. In Die Meistersinger she becomes the youthful ingenuous heroine whom Wagner imagined. As Sieglinde in Die Walküre she has no living peer. Next month Manhattan's critics will have their first chance to pass on her Tosca...
...singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
...little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years...