Word: ulrica
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...what all the excitement is about," said Bing. "We've signed up fine singers before. I was sitting beside Miss Anderson at a reception last month, and I simply asked her if she would like to sing the role of the gypsy, Ulrica, in Verdi's Masked Ball for us." She had never seen the music, but would try it for range. Last week she went over it with Dimitri Mitropoulos, who will conduct the work, and "everything went beautifully...
...Lord Jesus Christ and the belief that the Christ's Second Coming had already occurred-in the form of the Word, revealed to Emanuel Swedenborg. The afterlife and spirit world were as real to the new Swedenborg as his native Stockholm. He made Sweden's Queen Louisa Ulrica blanch with a secret message from her deceased brother, and he titillated his contemporaries with reports of new marriages made in heaven between noted persons long dead...
...with Italian censors, the libretto of Masked Ball was given a U. S. background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel and Tom. At a masked ball, the Creole killed his boss...