Word: lammermoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French soprano Lily Pons has practically had a monopoly on old-fashioned Latin coloratura warbling. Last week, when Coloratura Pons hurried off to Palm Beach, Fla. to nurse a sudden cold, General Manager Edward Johnson shoved a brand-new Italian soprano, Lina Aimaro, into her part in Lucia di Lammermoor. A packjammed audience went to hear her, found Soprano Aimaro an earnest young Model T coloratura, with good top notes and a tendency to stall...
...Lucia di Lammermoor (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red). Lily Pons heads the Metropolitan cast in Donizetti's opera...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Enrico Molinari, Mercedes Capsir, Enzo de Muro Lomanto and other artists, with orchestra and chorus from the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Most popular of all melodious old-time Italian operas, lustily performed by some of Italy's lustiest lilters. Judicious pruning has spared all the best bits. Highlight: Soprano Capsir's "Mad Scene...
...bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Je suis Titania from Mignon, on two less classical numbers entitled Let's Give Love Another Chance and (as Miss Pons says) 'Itting...
Chicago critics who had described Masini's U. S. debut in Lucia di Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...