Word: lammermoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall define a triumph? The first night of Italian opera in London, Mme. Toti dal Monte swelled her ample bosom to emit the titular notes of Lucia di Lammermoor. Diffident boxes whacked their hands red. "A triumph," said the press next morning, meaning that Toti dal Monte had covered the work with her usual capability...
Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Mme. Toti dal Monte, Venetian soprano, made her debut. Because of the liberal praise accorded her when, with the Chicago Opera Company, she made her first U. S. appearance a month ago, critics regarded her interestedly. As Lucia di Lammermoor, ever-distressed lady who goes mad in her attempt to sound like a flute, Mme. Dal Monte cadenzaed, bravuraed, languished, trilled, palpitated. Her hands were expressive, her figure squat, her voice limpid. Loud, long was the applause. "Cordial," the critics termed it, reserving their other adjective, "unprecedented," for dead debuts, for debuts...
...studied hard−under the famed Mme. Marchesi, adopted the name of Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house in the world, in Germany, Austria, Spain, England, Holland, France. She made many visits...
...clock this evening in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Overture to "The Sicilian Vespers" Verdi 2. Waltz, "Vienna Bonbons" Strauss 3. Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia 4. Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni 5. Prelude and Siciliana from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni 6. Turkish Patrol Michaelis 7. Sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 8. Wotan's Farewell and Fire Scene, "The Valkyrie" Wagner 9. "The Shamrock," Selection of Irish Airs Myddleton 10. Panamericana Herbert 11. Bacchanale from "Philemon et Baucis" Gounod
...Waltz, "Joyous Vienna" Komzak 3. Meditation from "Thais" Massenet 4. Fantasia, "L'Africaine" Meyerbeer 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Prelude to Act III. "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner (English Horn Solo, Louis Speyer) 7. Phantoms Chaloff 8. Hymn to the Sun, from "Iris" Mascagni 9. Fantasia. "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti 10. Minuet Bolzoni 11. Invitation to the Dance Weber-Berlioz