Elisabeth Rethberg returned to the Metropolitan Opera Monday evening and succeeded-believe it or not!-in transtorming teh inanity of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”into something dramatic adn even at moments thrilling.
That same evening, the Gordon String Quartet helped the Beethoven Association by doing a grand job with Boccherini’s Quartet in A (Op.33,No.6).
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