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...that she may get too many soubrette roles. She knows that her voice has not enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...first-night opera was Verdi's La Tramata which has long supplied Lucrezia Bori with the role best suited to her fluttering, enameled charm. Soprano Bori can do no wrong so far as her audience is concerned. As chief collector in the tin-cup campaign she was roundly publicized as the Metropolitan's "Little Savior." Paired with her was big Richard Crooks who sang smoothly, acted with increasing ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Era | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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