Word: opera
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moral wants the state and church can do much in common. But to accomplish this, much of the orthodox and worn-out theory must be cast aside. It is essential that more rational methods of dealing with Sunday be adopted, providing for instance healthy, inspiring drama and opera at established municipal theatres rather than allowing certain managers to produce anything they wish to, as we see in Boston today. The opening of the school-houses on week days and Sundays for the purposes of ethical instruction would make a dynamic force for moral good equal to the combined influence...
Bohemian--"Opera-wise and Otherwise and Not Wise at All," by J. E. Goodman...
Definite plans have been formed for giving Boston an opera house with an established company which will give grand opera for at least three months of the year. The ground for the building, which will be erected near Symphony Hall, has been donated by Mr. Eben D. Jordan, who has also offered to defray the expense of building the hall if necessary. The matter is in the hands of a preliminary committee, which will soon be organized into a permanent body and will eventually be formed as the proprietary company of the house. The theatre will be built...
...essential part of the project is a moderate scale of prices for seats, which will be considerably less than those charged by the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The management of the house will be in trusted to Mr. Henry Russell, the present director of the San Carlo Company, who has had several years' experience in operatic management in Italy and in London, as well as in the United States. The opera house will probably be completed by the fall...
...Henderson then recounted much of the history of the convention of the States General of 1789, and told the story of the burning of the toll-gates, the closing of the Opera, the sack of the Hotel des Invalides, and finally the storming of the Bastille. The murder of Delaunay, the governor of the fortress, caused the latent bloodthirstiness of the Paris mob, whose excesses have become so famous, to break forth in all its fury...