Word: opera
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intelligent and affable young men should be engaged on board wages, for the double purpose of maintaining order among the visitors, and pointing out the various celebrities among the assembled company. It would be desirable to provide these gentlemen with opera-glasses, by the aid of which the visitors could more conveniently distinguish the prominent personages to whom their attention might be called. And for the use of these a third fee, of corresponding value, should be demanded. A stand for the sale of heliotypes, College histories, etc., might also be advantageously erected in the gallery...
...OFFENBACH has entered into an agreement to write a grand spectacular opera bouffe especially for England. This piece will be finished during the autumn and brought out in London during the Christmas season. The subject is the story of "Whitington and his Cat." M. Offenbach will superintend its production in person...
...that the opera season is over for Boston, perhaps it would be well for us to review the prominent part that some of our friends have taken in putting the plays on the stage...
...Lucia" ended the Italian opera, and our actors had a respite, during which they could patronize the orchestra-seats, and enjoy Sothern supported by Jim, Jones, big Injin, and Tom, the regulars. March ushered in the English opera, and by this time the supply exceeded the demand; indeed, there was a superabundance, and little red tickets were issued accordingly. Let us follow one to the back door, behind which Cerberus Murphy stands guard. Six o'clock strikes; the crowd has assembled, the door opens, a discriminating eye selects the tall and mature, - red siders are as good as red tickets...
...hear, with pleasure, that the Cambridge Operatic Society, by the earnest solicitation of their friends, will repeat, on next Tuesday evening, the comic opera entitled "The Doctor of Alcantara." In the first rendering of this opera the amateur company are entitled to commendation for a performance of more than average merit. The Tenor sang with especial feeling and spirit, and altogether, his was open to less unfavorable criticism than any other performance of the evening. Miss M. K. Shackford, in the delivery of her principal arias, was admirable both in tone and style. The chorus showed excellent training, and deserves...