Word: hagman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premiere, Richard Hagman's Caponsacchi made few friends. His scoring for orchestra was exasperatingly derivative. The arias were few and far between, singers rarely being assigned more than four or five consecutive lines. Cimarosa's 145-year-old opéra bouffe, The Secret Marriage, had its Metropolitan premiere. It proved to be tenuous but gay, would have been gayer had singers not treated it like a period piece...
...when Finland broke away from Russia and became a Republic, Professor Lucina Hagman was a leading female Dry in the successful fight which set up Finnish Prohibition in 1919. Thirteen years of Prohibition having changed her views, Professor Hagman exclaimed after the polling: "The Finnish home has been saved...