Crossword-Solution: CURCI 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Before the invention of the phonograph it was often necessary for the opera goer to pay some attention to the performance—at least while certain favorite arias were being sung; this handicap to the enjoyment of opera has now fortunately been overcome and one can devote one’s entire attention to other more important things, safe in one’s knowledge that one has Galli-Curci at home on the Vic.

For velocity, practice figures of five, six, seven and eight notes, first slowly, then faster and faster, up and down." V =AMELITA GALLI-CURCI= SELF-TEACHING THE GREAT ESSENTIAL No singer can rise to any distinction without the severest kind of self-discipline and hard work.

When you have mentioned Galli-Curci, Tetrazzini, Barrientos, and Frieda Hempel--the last is both lyric and coloratura--you have named all the great ones who are known to us here in America.

There is one peculiar mode of mastery for Galli-Curci, another for Tetrazzini, still another for Barrientos; each in her particular _genre_ is unique, apart.

Among those who had this training are: Galli-Curci, Lehmann, Raisa, D'Alvarez, Barrientos, Braslau, Case.