Word: coventionalism
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...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...
...been well received in Paris. The project takes the guise of the familiar "music for the masses," in that it plans a box office rate of $1 for the best seats. There are to be no highly paid stars, but a large company with full length seasons. The present Covent Garden yearly season lasts only six weeks...
...Sometimes the mob proves unruly, but on the whole they have been comparatively well behaved. Once, in our production in the Covent Garden Opera House, the mob struck before the performance,--I forget now just what the difficulty was,--but at all events it was all fixed up at the time. I expect no such difficulty, however, in Boston...