Word: vissi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket...