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...town reports were exaggerated. The Metropolitan did not close. It has never closed prematurely, no matter what its difficulties. Casts were shuffled about, performances given adequately. One by one the sick singers came back to work, Rosa Ponselle to give a dark, overdrawn performance as Violetta (La Traviata), her first...
...some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora in L'Amore, Violetta in Traviata, Mimi in Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande. She is devout and, like most opera singers, superstitious. She has a wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does...
Hisses, boos and catcalls last week rewarded Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci for her twitterings as Violetta in a Budapest performance of La Traviata. On the occasion of her recent retirement from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 27), she provoked controversy by pronouncing interest in opera dead...
...Opera. Soprano Muzio and Tenor Schipa took Verdi's libation of tunes and tears, poured it out, an acceptable sacrifice to Emotion. Muzio, as Violetta, erred, atoned and died. Schipa, as Alfred, loved loudly and blindly while Richard Bonelli, benign as the father, rubbed his hands and looked on at the mischief of his own making. The 3,500 in the Auditorium took delight in Muzio's costumes, in the elaborate sets, in the new ballet with incidental dances by Vechslav Swoboda, in boxholder's emeralds, gowns. The ten million got little of the glamour, missed little...
...Lowenstein First Venetian Abbot Perterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Third Venetian Charles Leatherbee '20 Soldier, Gambler G. W. Harrington '30 Doctor Pierrot E. T. Bradley '29 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Dancer William Wilson '15 Princess, Flaminia Mary Caperton Queen Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard Isabella Rhodita Edwards Princess Marion Isaacs Emeraldina Mary Sands...