“Dressed in my costume as the Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova’s memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I ...

Madame Frances Alda, international opera diva, announced that her program at the Auditorium Theater would contain no German music. Anti-German sentiment apparently was still widespread, despite the ...

One of radio’s biggest, most persistent boosters has been Soprano Frances Alda. Three winters ago when most important singers were half-apologetic about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly ...

SINCE last we met (and you haven’t changed a bit yourself) the radio people have gone wild over celebrities. Time was when radio programs were content to offer unknown performers with only an ...