Word: auditioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tibbett's Metropolitan Opera audition got him a $60-a-week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his...
The other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar...
W. B. Wood '32, first marshal of the Senior Class, will preside at the audition and the judges will be William Phillips '00, W. H. Wade '81, and Roger Wolcott '99, all overseers of the University.
If Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would...
Two days after her Metropolitan audition last March Lily Pons had signed three big contracts: one for five years with the Metropolitan Opera, one with Victor Talking Machine Co., another for concerts with the Metropolitan Musical Bureau (managers of Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza, La Argentina). In France two people were...