Word: schipa
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...moonfaced Italian barber sat in the audience at the San Francisco Opera House one night last week, beaming as if there were nothing in the world which pleased him more than the comical antics in The Barber of Seville. He beamed at Tito Schipa as the love-smitten Count, at Ezio Pinza as the crafty music-master, at Louis D'Angelo as the doddering old doctor, at Richard Bonelli who flourished razor and brush with the ease of a professional. The little Italian barber had reason to be pleased that night. In the company of such experienced singers...
...embalmed body of Enrico Caruso, who died in 1921, lies in a mausoleum near Naples in a glass-covered casket wrapped in a U. S. flag and a green billiard cloth. Friends (including Tenor Tito Schipa) change the clothing every three years. Visitors report a steady discoloration of the tenor's face...
Last week President Karleton Hackett of the Chicago City Opera Company announced a five-week season to begin in November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...serious business for romantic Edward Johnson. He found that he had fallen heir to nine new singers, signed up by Witherspoon just before his death.* Greatest shock came with the realization that some of the big stars had not been re-engaged, not Pons nor Ponselle nor Lehmann nor Schipa nor Tibbett. Conclusion was that the Metropolitan had resorted to poor economy but New Manager Johnson was instantly soothing. Negotiations were still in process. In the future young U. S. singers would be granted greater opportunities but not, if he could help it, at the expense of the stellar winter...
Artur Rodzinski. Vladimir Golschmann, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nikolai Sokoloff, Tullio Serafin. Soloists to come: Rosa Ponselle, Yehudi Menuhin, Efrein Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz. Lily Pons, Lucrezia Bori, Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Rethberg, Tito Schipa, Richard Bonelli...