Rosa Raisa: More chapters of opera - being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 (1919) (14596346107)
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Identifier: morechaptersofop00kreh (find matches)Title: More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918Year: 1919 (1910s)Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923Subjects: OperaPublisher: New York : H. Holt and companyContributing Library: Harold B. Lee LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young UniversityView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:order that he might produce grand opera in it for fourweeks in the next season. In a spirit of magnanimity headded: I do not wish to crush the Metropolitan; I amcoming to develop my own season. The explanation of thisremark was to be found in the fact that it had been recog-nized that Chicago was unable to support a season of morethan ten weeks and that inasmuch as it was not practicableto make contracts for singers of such short duration it wasnecessary to add a months performances in New York anda fortnights in Boston to make the existence of the Chicagocompany possible. He set his prices of admission at thesame rate as those of the Metropolitan and continued ineffect the same policy that had been made familiar by Mr.Hammerstein years before. Miss Mary Garden was hischief reliance, though he found a more potent attractionin Mme. Galli-Curci, concerning whom much ado, not al-together unjustified, was made. She had made a modesteffort to enter Mr. Gattis forces before going to ChicagoText Appearing After Image:Rosa Raisa Of the Chicago Opera Company as Aida REPERTORY OF THE CHICAGO COMPANY 395 and turned out to be the subject of a sensational episodeeven greater than that which had attended the coming ofMme. Tetrazzini to the Manhattan Opera House. Of thissomething more may be said later. The majority of Mr.Campaninis singers were familiar to New Yorkers fromthe old Manhattan days. Among them were Miss Garden,Mme. Louise Berat, Gustave Huberdeau, Charles Dalmores,Hector Dufranne, and Vittorio Arimondi; in the list werealso Georges Baklanoff, and Riccardo Stracciari. Theseason began on January 23, 1917, and ended on February15, 1918. The operas performed were Monna Vanna, I Giojelli della Madonna, Thais, Romeo et Juliette,Dinorah, Manon, Aida (in which a fine dramaticsoprano, Rosa Raisa, effected her debut), Lucia di Lam-mermoor, Faust (in which Mme. Melba effected are-entry on February 1), II Barbiere di Siviglia,Louise, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Traviata,and three novelties, viz.: MascagnNote About Images
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