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Rochester paid so willingly to hear pretty French Lily Pons sing in Lucia di Lammermoor fortnight ago that for the first time in eight years the Metropolitan Opera's visit showed a profit. Last week musical Rochester went three times to the big theatre named for the late George...
Baltimore last week was cleaning up the Lyric Theatre preparatory to the Metropolitan's annual spring visit. Clevelanders were trying to earn tickets in an Ask-Me-About-Opera contest sponsored by the Plain Dealer. Rochester socialites were getting out their top-hats, arranging dinner parties for the one...
Variety, theatrical tradesheet, last week prophesied an end to fee inflation, printed the prices asked by some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli...
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...
When the Zenatellos brought suit against Lily Pons last spring, she defended herself on the grounds that they had been bad agents, had taken double commissions. She was grateful to Madame Zenatello, she said, for persuading her to come to the U. S. thus "advancing my career further and more...