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Another night, the Bow Street police station over the way from Covent Garden had a telephone call. Reserves, please; the crowd was getting burly. Twenty-five shilling seats ($6) had brought ten guineas ($50). People had heard that that stately young Viennese who sings Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was given to temperamental outbursts...
...appearing "not to have gained the confidence of the artists." They sent for Conductor Leopold Mugnone, the Neapolitan, a great favorite in London. Jeritza went off to the country to rest before Fedora. And going, she learned that their Britannic Majesties would be graciously pleased to attend her next Tosca...
Giovanni Martinelli, tall, straight-featured, with long locks thrust back in waves from his forehead, is the six-foot incarnation of all Latin gallantry. He, many declare, is the only tenor who can play Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca without bringing angry tears to the eyes of disillusioned debutantes. He is now 39 and weight-well-distributed, fortunately -has come to him with his many honors. His repertoire includes virtually the entire operatic works of Verdi, Puccini and the leading modern French composers. His English, unlike that of many of the Italian singers in the U. S., is excellent, his French...
...Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces comes Wagner like a Titan, mightily marching...
...intervened and her Metropolitan début was postponed to 1921. Out of a potential repertoire of some fifty-odd roles-including German, French and Italian operas-she has appeared in ten at the Metropolitan. She is especially lauded for her Elisabeth in Tannhaüser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Tosca in Tosco. Jenufa is now added to the list...