Word: merstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Opera Company, as all know, sprang out of the storied Ham- merstein venture. The formidable Oscar, putting on opera at the Man- hattan Opera House of New York, gave the Metropolitan management many bad dreams. But Hammerstein had no millionaires behind him. Opera war cost money. Finally he sold out to the Metropolitan. His chief orchestra conductor had been the shrewd and able Cleofonte Campanini, who now took the Hammerstein idea to Chicago. Chicago is the natural enemy of New York. Chicago would rival New York on the heights of opera. Campanini understood Americans as no American understands them...
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