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...Tosca will open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away...
From Cleveland to Rochester went troupers of the Metropolitan Opera Company last week, gave there their two last performances of the season-Rigoletto with Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...
...occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
...Manhattan. Having opened splendidly with La Gioconda (during which the spotlight played quite properly upon the boxholders instead of the stars), the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...that casts no dishonor upon a dinner coat, can offer flowers and shout "Bis!" and strut in the lobby between the acts with a fine air of having bought one's own cigaret. At the large-sized Century Theatre, Mr. Gallo's capable traveling company opened with Tosca. A new tenor, Franco Tafuro of Lima, was compelled to repeat Puccini's ringing lacrimosities upon the stairs; Anne Roselle was an amply emotional heroine...