Word: verdis
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...used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve made hers. Her friends included Gounod, with whom she studied Marguerite, Verdi when he was old and gnarled, Sarah Bernhardt who gave her points in acting and taught her makeup, Oscar Wilde who after his disgrace begged money of her on a Paris street. She sang duets with King Oscar II of Sweden. She was made Dame Commander, Order of the British...
...sitting in his box glowering at Former Prime Minister Mustafa Nahas Pasha, his bitterest political enemy, in a box just opposite. The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that same opera house. The tunes, familiar as the Nile settings, promised no great excitement...
...Florence, Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, as famed for her bulk as for her trills, sang her farewell concert at the Verdi Theatre where she made her debut 35 years ago. Benito Mussolini once gave Tetrazzini a photograph inscribed: "To the voice that makes one believe in Paradise...
...into Mary Garden's wastebasket. But this one appealed to her. With characteristic terseness she wrote the young man to come next day. The result of that audience was an opera called Camille, written by the young man after the story of Alexandre Dumas fils (as is Verdi's Traviata). The premiere was scheduled for this week at Samuel Insull's year-old Chicago Opera House with Mary Garden in the leading role...
Last week's fire was in a way fateful to Dr. Grenfell's work. It dramatized the stark necessity of the benefit the International Grenfell Association will produce Lt Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Friday, Nov. 21. Chief singers will be Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli. The opera : Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destine (The Power of Fate...