Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loose construction and the stamp of the amateur were the desiderata in light opera, "Her Soldier Boy," now playing at the Shubert Theatre, would take first rank among such productions. Perhaps no play of recent years has so openly defied all dramatic fundamentals, for there is an incoherence which runs through the piece that even a prejudiced audience is not able to overlook. Had the work been done by novices, we might be more charitable in passing judgment, but such veterans as Victor Leon and Rida Johnson Young will certainly not enhance their reputation by such workmanship as this...
...Back Bay 21994 North Station (Information), Haymarket 3000 Porter Station (B. & A.), Camb. 2958 South Station (Information), Orford 4060 Trinity Place (B. & A.) Back Bay 27163 Theatres. Boston, Oxford 722 Castle Square, Oxford 5300 Colonial, Oxford 411 Hollis, Oxford 131 Keith's, Oxford 1724 Majestic, Oxford 4520 Opera House, Back Bay 4490 Park, Oxford 2317 Park Square, Oxford 5060 Plymouth, Oxford 2075 St. James, Back Bay 202 Shubert, Oxford 4520 Symphony Hall, Back Bay 1492 Tremont, Oxford 608 Wilbur, Oxford 4520 Boston Papers. Associated Press, Fort Hill 400 Boston Advertiser, Main 2470 Boston American, Main 5180 Boston Globe, Main...
...Wagner's opera, "Die Walkure," will be presented in the Yale Bowl at New Haven at 7.45 o'clock tonight. Mr. S. Kronberg, of Boston, who staged the performance of "Siegfried" in the Stadium a year ago, is in charge of the affair, which will be conducted along the same general lines as was the opera last June, but enlarged. Many noted singers are to take part,-Mme. Johanna Gadski as Brunhilde; Mme. Schumann-Heink, as Fricka; Mme. Melaine Kurt, as Sieglinde; M. Johannes Sembach, as Siemunde; Clarence Whitehill, as Waton; Carl Braun, as Hunding, and other Metropolitan stars...
...expenses entailed by the production of the opera will be well over $25,000, including cost of the stage lighting effects, stage settings, scenery, and many minor details, all of which will result in one of the most brilliant and spectacular effects in the history of opera staging in this country...
...lighting of the improvised opera house will cost $600 or more. Experiments have been made daily, so that the desired effects may be obtained...