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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a similar group showed signs of sprouting in Ridgefield, Conn. There at his estate, "Dunrovin," wealthy Manhattan Attorney William Matheus Sullivan, long an admirer of England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stars v. Staging | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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