Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large squad of men worked on the stage yesterday and last night, getting everything in order and trying out scenic and lighting effects. This work will continue this morning. Several of the artists are now in Boston, and the rest will arrive today. The Metropolitan Opera House's huge orchestra is also due today...
This evening Mr. Loomis Taylor, stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera. House of New York City, will try the various stage sets, and get everything in smooth working order. Tomorrow evening there will be a rehearsal, open only to those bearing passes. The properties and accessories of the Metropolitan Opera House, which will be used in the production, are being kept in the baseball cage. The larger pieces of scenery, which will come from the Boston Opera House, will arrive today...
Work on the stage for the "Siegfried" production in the Stadium on June 4 has been progressing rapidly under Mr. Loomis Taylor, stage manager of the German operas at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mr. Fred Taus, chief electrician of the Metropolitan, and Mr. R. F. Brunton, of the Boston Opera House. The structure will be completed by next Tuesday, according to present plans. Two carloads of scenery and properties, including the large dragon, are already here, and the remainder of the stage settings will arrive soon. The artists are due in Cambridge on Tuesday and Wednesday...
Work has commenced on the wiring of the Stadium in preparation for the production of Wagner's Siegfried which is to be given on the evening of June 4. Mr. F. W. Gaus, the electrician of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York, has been secured to take charge of the work, and he is bringing with him fifteen expert assistants. Two telegraph poles have been erected at the open end of the Stadium, in order to bring the wires in from the street...
Arrangements have been completed for the staging of the production of Wagner's "Siegfried" which is to be presented by an all-star cast in the Stadium on Friday evening, June 4. The plans have been prepared by Mr. Loomis Taylor of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, who is the general stage director for the production, and by Mr. Samuel Kronberg, the general manager of the festival. The exterior work at the Stadium, such as the wiring and other general preparations, will be started within a week, and the building of the stage will begin immediately after the presentation...