Word: totie
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Mme. Toti dal Monte, Venetian soprano, made her debut. Because of the liberal praise accorded her when, with the Chicago Opera Company, she made her first U. S. appearance a month ago, critics regarded her interestedly. As Lucia di Lammermoor, ever-distressed lady who goes mad in her attempt to sound like a flute, Mme. Dal Monte cadenzaed, bravuraed, languished, trilled, palpitated. Her hands were expressive, her figure squat, her voice limpid. Loud, long was the applause. "Cordial," the critics termed it, reserving their other adjective, "unprecedented," for dead debuts, for debuts...
Features, of the week at Chicago's auditorium were Lucia, presenting for the first time Toti dal Monte, soprano; Tannhaüser, with another new conductor, Mr. Weber; Samson and Delilah. The ever-popular Rosa Raisa's second appearance of the season was in Aida, last Saturday night...
...sooner was the boom for Toti dal Monte started, and her American triumph staged for this Winter, than news sifted through the fog of London that Dusolina Giannini had already staked out an undisputable claim as legitimate successor to Patti. Still more recently there drifts over from Moscow, via the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau, the report that Maria Kurenko, ex-criminal-law-student, will put all comers out of the running when she arrives in the U. S. in November. She has paved her way with reports of unbridled enthusiasms evoked by her appearances in Kharkov, Moscow, Riga, Helsingfors, Paris...
...Toti Dal Monte, soprano, from La Scala...
Three new sopranos have signed on. They are: Toti dal Monti, Elvira de Hidalgo, Elsa Gentner-Rischer...