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...particular interest. The first of these performances will take place on February 24, the "Tales of Hoffman" being the opera selected for that date. The other two operas are "Hansel and Gretel," and "Tosca," which are to be given in the afternoon and evening respectively of March 24. Mme. Melba of the Metropolitan Opera Company will probably be one of the singers, although the full orchestras, chorus, corps de ballet and scenery will be brought from the Boston House...
...course of an interview in the April issue of Music: "I am heartily in favor of opera in our own language, and do what I can for it. Now, take that company at the Castle Square. Miss Lane deserves as much credit for her work as does Mme. Melba. Seldom in my life have I found so sweet and sympathetic a voice as hers. Her Marguerite was a revelation. While that company remains there, there is a proof of what can be done by American artists, trained in America, in the American language...