Word: operaâ
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...such a small voice are mighty schemes made known. This All- American company may serve U. S. opera as the innumerable little municipal opera houses of Europe have served Italian, French, German opera???making it familiar to the people outside great metropolises, giving unknown composers, singers, a hearing. It will do this if Fortune again goes where Gallo goes...
...reigned in conjunction with a Queen of Opera???Jeritza. This lovely lady was likewise the adored of Vienna. Gatti engaged her for New York's Metropolitan. It is said that there were negotiations about Piccaver's coming to the same institution, but that he demanded much money, reasoning that his high place in Viennese opera was secure and that the U.S. is a hard land to conquer, especially for an American. Jeritza came, and he remained the undisputed master of the upper Danube...