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Lakme, Bell Song by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $1.50)-This will explain the revival of Manhattan's interest in coloratura opera, recently pronounced dead by Coloratura Amelita Galli-Curci.
Still, nobody knew much about her. Metropolitan debuts have been dull lately. Coloraturas are out of vogue and newsmen had not thought it worth their while to find out that this new one was married to a Dutchman almost twice her age, that her father, a violinist, had earned a...
A greater triumph was to come in Rigoletto a few nights later. The boxes were filled with fashionable Wednesday-nighters, the house tensely expectant. Soon came the Caro nome aria and Lily Pons stopped the show. Applause lasted ten minutes by the clock. After the second act she had ten...
At Lily Pons's first performances there were none so excited as a portly middle-aged couple well known to the opera public of 20 years ago. The woman was Maria Gay, once a famed Carmen with the Metropolitan and Boston Opera companies. The man was her husband, Tenor Giovanni...
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...