Word: riccardo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other operas new to the Chicago repertoire will be Mascagni's Iris with Edith Mason, Antonio Cortis, Giacomo Rimini. Virgilio Lazzari; Riccardo Zandonai's Conchita with Rosa Raisa; Massenet's Don Quichotte with Vanni-Marcoux, Hallie Stiles and Desire Defrere...
...what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
Thus last week groveled and fawned Signer Riccardo Forster, editor of the largest news organ in Southern Italy, Il Mattino of Naples. Meanwhile, however, a very slight and cautious reaction from such typical abasement was setting in at Rome. There, a diligent official dared to criticise pampered Mario Carli, editor of L'Impero and prime favorite of Il Duce. Recently, Italian wives have been told by Signer Carli that they must bear a son every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted...
Perry S. Williams, Minneapolis newspaperman, heard the story, dreamed and mulled over it as he typed his' daily stint, embroidered it, made a libretto of it. It was more than a dozen years ago that he finished it and sent it to Tenor Riccardo Martin of the Chicago Opera, more than a dozen years ago that Tenor Martin passed it on to Composer Alberto Bimboni, little man, to write the score...
Married. Hugh Whitfield (Riccardo) Martin, 42, operatic tenor, now guest tenor with the Chicago Opera Company, to Miss Jane Grey, 40, actress (role in Kick In, Skin Game), in Stamford, Conn...