Word: covention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembered a night at Covent Garden, 18 years ago. At that time, she had already enjoyed triumphs in Italy, in Mexico, in Buenos Aires, where the enraptured citizens had fired off cannon and drawn her carriage, snowed under with flowers, through the streets. But Covent Garden was the test stronghold of musical recognition and, though she had sung Lucia over 200 times, her large, dimpled knees, she freely admitted, trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering...
...Serafin is a conductor of European fame. He was at one time assistant conductor with Toscanini at La Scala. He has conducted in Ferrera; Buenos Ayres; Madrid; Covent Garden, London; the Champs Élysées, Paris. He has taught at the Milan Conservatory, Montemezzi one of his pupils. Aged 46, he looks younger-a serious thick-set Italian, dominating, vital...
...fact that her last appearances here were also farewell appearances. This time, however, it is "positively farewell," because Anna, says her manager, S. Hurok, is weary of the discomforts of travel. Consequently, a rather unexacting final circuit has been arranged. It will consist of four weeks at Covent Garden, London; three and one-half weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan; then a "season" in San Francisco; finally a first, last and only tour of Australia. Thereafter the most skilful toes in the world will be on view only to a select band of pupils in the Pavlova London home...
...amateur." So she departed for Paris in 1884, trained her voice−and studied hard−under the famed Mme. Marchesi, adopted the name of Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house...
...most recent composition of Albert Coates, onetime conductor of the Imperial Opera of Petrograd and of grand opera at Covent Garden, London, is entitled Suite after the Style of the Old Masters. It has been dedicated to George Eastman of Rochester?a gesture speaking volumes...