Word: hurok
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adverse criticism, financial difficulties beset the German Grand Opera Company after its first performance. After one week it was necessary to dethrone Manager Blumental, place the company under the care of Concert Manager Sol Hurok, who said in part...
Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber...
...Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso, roar irritation, last week, as he summoned his concert manager, S. Hurok, instructing him to announce to the world that he, Chaliapin, would not sing with the Chicago Civic Opera Company next season? Perhaps not. But whatever Mr. Chaliapin's feelings, the announcement was made. He will appear in the usual limited number of performances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and tour from coast to coast in a new series of concerts. What caused Chaliapin's decision may have been anything. It may have been Director Samuel Insull, whose alleged mismanagements have been...
...Titania of the Imperial Russian school of romantic choregraphy, is soon to embark on a farewell tour of the U. S. This in spite of the 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...
...comfort and happiness of its very able impresario, Fortune Gallo. The Wagnerian Festival Company, which had a rather precarious career this season, achieved a handsome deficit. The Russian Opera Company, which arrives in New York after a long road tour, has been no financial godsend to its manager, S. Hurok. Any study of operatic finances makes it the more extraordinary that the Metropolitan company, whose policy is not to make profits but to avoid deficits, stands today the world's first operatic institution and earns a considerable surplus. Mr. Gatti has indeed achieved what many in the old days...