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...Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season...
PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...
...were once worth nearly $1,000,000 on paper, have been living at their villa near Verona, Italy, grateful for the farm products which grow on their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds instead...
...Swifts, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fields, Drakes, Dicks and their neighbors. But the fantastic steel curtain (medley of trumpeters, poultry and a naked girl) went up on an opera never before heard in the U. S.: Ernest Moret's Lorenzaccio, based on the play of Alfred de Musset, with Baritone Vanni-Marcoux in the title role created by him ten years ago in Paris...
...young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week by the superb, cumulative performance of Vanni-Marcoux...