Word: vissi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tosca, Lohengrin, Cavelleria, Walkure followed the first season. Rosenkavalier, Thaïs, Tannhaüser, Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget...
...program follows: I Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpins Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club II Am Sontag Morgen Brahms Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Brahms Von Ewiger Liebe Brahms Stornellatrice Respight Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Guar Nieri Vissi D'Arte from Tosca Puccini Miss Giannini III Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs: The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hampshire Arranged by Holst Madrigal Montwerdi O Isis and Osiris, from The Magic Flute Mozart Soloist: J. E. Gurney Four Choruses, from Patience Sullivan The Glee Club IV Four Italian Folk Songs Arranged by Vittoris...
...program for the concert is as follows: Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Halleujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club Am Sontag Morgen Immer leiser wiremein Schlumme Von wiger liebe Stornellatrice Respighi Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Buarnieri Vissi d' Arte Puccini Miss Giannini Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs; The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hoist Madrigal Monteverdi O Isis and Isiris from "The Magic Mozart Flute" Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan The Glee Club Four Italian Folk Songs Miss Giannini The Hundered Pipers Scottish Folk Songs The Nightingale Chaikovsky How Beautiful Are the Feet...
...Alda, surely no longer in her first-youth, sang with a freshness and a warmth that many younger (and more popular) singers might envy. Her songs, Marx's "Marienlied" and "Hat die Liebe dich beruehrt", were adequate vehicles; "Vissi d'Arte" was sung with unusual feeling and understanding...