Word: tenoring
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...sore ailment, described on the programs as "indisposition," smote Tenor Beniamino Gigli just before he was to appear as Vasco da Gama in L'Africaine. Mario Chamlee sprang into the breach. Without rehearsal, without ever having appeared in the role on any stage, he sang it resonantly, fluently, confidently...
...Manhattan. Rosa Ponselle, in the white draperies of a vestal virgin, was fervently wooed by Edward Johnson, U. S. tenor, disguised as a Roman soldier in the Metropolitan's revival of La Vestale, a totally unoriginal opera written 100 years ago by Gasparo Spontini. Critics agree that this composer understood one thing- how to write for the voice. For the rest he depended on Gluck and what he could remember of Mozart. Elaborately staged, furbished with the faultless voice of Miss Ponselle, it will, they think, be popular...
Divorced. The onetime Miss Dorothy Benjamin of Manhattan, widow of Enrico Caruso, famed tenor, from former Captain Ernest Ingram; at Paris...
...Fedora, Maria Jeritza was about to drain a glass of poison in the presence of the tenor hero (Giovanni Martinelli). She climbed upon a table, swayed there in tragic, shimmering loveliness. The table toppled, collapsed, spilled her into Martinelli...
Lawitz Melchior, Danish tenor, six feet high. Once his voice was baritone, but like Jean de Reszke's, it grew higher-He will sing Wagnerian roles...