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A. Salmaggi (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    Alfredo Salmaggi. Obituary with photo in NYT of Sept 6 , 1975 (needs subscription) query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E1DB123EEF34B... "Alfredo Salmaggi, the operatic impresario who produced bargain-price opera and crowded his houses in this city for many years died yesterday in a nursing home in Far Rockaway, Queens." Before starting to put on operas in 1918, he performed as a tenor.
  • B-59 said:
    Alfredo Samaggi (March 4, 1886 in Aquila - September 9, 1975 in New York) A short biography in German is in 'Großes Sängerlexikon', Band 4, Karl-Josef Kutsch & Leo Riemens, page 4107 books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=PA4107&...
  • Art Siegel said:
    From Time Magazine, 1943: "The greatest producer of second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan." For 99¢ Impresario Salmaggi gives his public its money's worth. His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi's melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily." content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,932951,00.html
  • Art Siegel said:
    There are quite a few Bain photos of opera singers playing their Victrolas. It seems to have been part of the photographer's assignment. Here are some: Sophie Braslau (LOC)Otto Goritz (LOC)Martinelli & family (LOC)R. Werrenrath (LOC)
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    All, Thanks for all the info on Mr. Salmaggi. We will update the record to reflect some of these details.

[Man near phonograph] (LOC)

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Martinelli & family (LOC)

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