Word: tosca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising...
...raised the performance above incongruity, saved the plot from appearing like any cinematic melodrama. She made comedy in the first act out of dishwashing, in the second out of tight slippers and a "company" costume. Then when the card scene came she loosed the energy which makes her Tosca famed and, despite Puccini's feeble music, created ten tremendous breathtaking minutes. The third act was noteworthy only for the sight of a soprano outshining a tenor on horseback...
Gahagan. From Czechoslovakia came a despatch hailing Helen Gahagan, U. S. actress, as "outstanding American success of the Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...
...Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Directors Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens. In Europe, London's Covent Garden opera season is now under way. It lasts until June 28. Two "Ring" cycles are being given, as well as Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Girl of the Golden West, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Norma, Gioconda, Boris. Conductors are Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza. Chaliapin heads the singers. The Paris music season, at its height from now through June, includes a series of performances at the Champs-Elysees Theatre by the Turin Opera Company, conducted...
...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...