Word: soprano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica Dragonette. This year, for the Christmas trade, Jessica Dragonette made Is There a Santa Claus? immortal on a Victor phonograph record...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...
Debutasters rated both Tenor Laholm and Soprano Reggiani seaworthy, if not cup-defending, additions to the Metropolitan fleet...
...story, in which Victor Herbert plays fifth fiddle, concerns the unhappy marriage of a conceited tenor (Allan Jones) and his soprano protegee Louise (Mary Martin). Through years of professional jealousy, both are sustained and supported by singing Victor Herbert's music. Louise's voice gives out, her singing daughter (14-year-old Susanna Foster) takes over very creditably, despite a tendency to tail off in a musine squeak on the top notes (B flat above high...