Word: verdis
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Wednesday, January 27, matinee: Bizet's "Carmen"; evening: Verdi's "La Traviata...
Saturday, January 30, matinee: Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro;" evening Verdi's "The Masked Ball...
Monday, February 1, evening: Verdi's "Falstaff...
...baseball park on the outskirts of Manhattan, 20,000 people assembled while Kleig lights concentrated their glare upon an extemporary stage erected over second base. Great numbers ot staring children sat in the cheaper seats. They murmured among themselves. For their entertainment, Verdi's Aida was presented, with Marie Rappold as Aida, Tenor Bernardo de Muro (TIME, June 1) as Radames, in the first of a series of open air concerts to be given by the Manhattan Opera Company. Priests in flowing diapers, soldiers in black and gold, caparisoned camels, slow-stepping horses, passed with solemn unreality across...
Elizabeth Rethberg, also of the Metropolitan, had her London debut, too, in Aida. London Times: "The conspicuous thing in the diva's singing is its independence of the mere effect of climaxes. She leads one on from point to point through expansion of Verdi's melody...