Word: rethberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever allowed on an opera stage with her father. But as a child, she traveled with him on his tours, listened to him from opera-house wings, dressed up in his paints and costumes. That touring ended the day daddy made the tabloid headlines. Mme. Pinza sued Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg for $250,000 for alienation of affections. She later withdrew the suit, but divorced Ezio and took Claudia with her to Italy...
...dozen of the Metropolitan's once-great singers went to Manhattan's Town Hall last week. Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca, onetime star of the Met's "Golden Age." It was his first Manhattan recital in 29 years. Said De Luca afterward: "Even before I began to sing they make a big ovation. They don't even know can I still sing. They are saying...
Most of the oldtimers in the audience had sung with De Luca during the 20 years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press...
Sopranos Margaret Matzenauer, Elisabeth Rethberg; Tenor Beniamino Gigli; Baritone Titta Ruffo...
...productions was Soprano Flagstad's bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting her was as fine a team of husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior...