Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three staccato shots startled the sleepy residents of Wade's Hill Road in London's Southgate district. The listeners, and all London, were even more startled to learn that the gunfire had killed unarmed* Police Constable Nat Edgar-the first bobby to be shot in metropolitan London in 26 years...
...moved into Chicago's Civic Opera House for a one-night stand; the 4,200 seats and standing room had been sold out for two weeks, and 3,000 ticket-buyers had been turned away. (It was no trouble at all to get seats in advance for the Metropolitan Opera's famed Ezio Pinza that afternoon...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci...
...first act of Peter Grimes, the applause was tentative. It came as something of a blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were singing about. But after the audience sat back and just listened to the music, as they do at operas sung in Italian and German, everything went better. At the final curtain, the Metropolitan's only new opera of the year got ten enthusiastic curtain calls...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Aida, with Margaret Harshaw and Daniza Ilitsch...