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The Los Angeles opera, having announced a bye, changed its mind and gave five performances last week, unwilling to be completely eclipsed by what was to happen this week in rival San Francisco. San Francisco was opening a new world-ranking opera house, and presenting (at $3.500 per night) the...
People who attended the performances were so pleased that they gladly donated when, later, he organized a chorus, went around town to banquets and meetings drumming up enthusiasm for a permanent opera organization. He spent $20,000 first thing, fixing up the old Auditorium. He imported high-priced singers. At...
That night Lily Pons hung opposite her bed one of the cheap paper strips on which the Metropolitan advertises its performances. To her, more than to anyone else, so great a success seemed fabulous. Only a few months before she had been singing with a second-rate opera company in...
That first Metropolitan performance made people want to know all about unknown Lily Pons. Her father was an automobile pioneer who drove a Sizaire-Naudin car from Paris to Pekin, got lost in the Urals, starved in Tibet and had to be towed the latter part of his journey. Lily...
With a small roster of singers and a curtailed repertoire, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires opened last June its temporada grande (big season), which corresponds both in climate and in social brilliance with the winter seasons of U. S. operas. On its two greatest drawing cards the Colon could...