Word: covention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters of her native Melbourne. Florence Mary Wilson, a compatriot, did the same with "Australia," dubbed herself Austral shortly before she made her debut at London's Covent Garden. That was seven years ago. Since then, in England and the U. S., she has won great applause in concerts, oratorios, operas...
Merger. In London last week, the Covent Garden Syndicate merged with the British National Opera, offspring of the old Beecham Opera Company, thus joining the entire operatic forces of Great Britain. The new Covent Garden Opera Company expects a twelve-month season in London and the provinces. Sir Thomas Beecham, who originated the idea, may be included as one of the conductors...
...conduct concerts and "concertized opera" this summer; and England, where he is a member of the Royal College of Musicians, all sat up last week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from the stage, during the ovation. The cast, furthermore, was all-British except for the title part, sung and danced by Gota...
...door creaked open and there was the friendly face of Dame Nellie Melba. Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan. Above all, don't expect applause for your great aria, 'Casta Diva.' A London audience wouldn't clap the Angel Gabriel himself until the curtain was down and the proper time for applause had arrived...
...great house listened. The top galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...