Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dress rehearsal of "Siegfried," which will be held in the Stadium this evening, will end the preliminary preparations for tomorrow's production of Wagner's opera. Admission this evening will be by special pass only...
This evening Mr. Loomis Taylor, stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera. House of New York City, will try the various stage sets, and get everything in smooth working order. Tomorrow evening there will be a rehearsal, open only to those bearing passes. The properties and accessories of the Metropolitan Opera House, which will be used in the production, are being kept in the baseball cage. The larger pieces of scenery, which will come from the Boston Opera House, will arrive today...
Work on the stage for the "Siegfried" production in the Stadium on June 4 has been progressing rapidly under Mr. Loomis Taylor, stage manager of the German operas at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mr. Fred Taus, chief electrician of the Metropolitan, and Mr. R. F. Brunton, of the Boston Opera House. The structure will be completed by next Tuesday, according to present plans. Two carloads of scenery and properties, including the large dragon, are already here, and the remainder of the stage settings will arrive soon. The artists are due in Cambridge on Tuesday and Wednesday...
...that even then at many concerts some of the wind instrument solos were played by memory, by the concert-master? This state of affairs has turned away a sufficient number of men to form an efficient orchestra. Former members of the St. Louis and Philadelphia symphonies, Boston Opera, and the N. E. Conservatory of Music, and a leader of a Boston theatre have complained that the annual try-outs are given by conductor-pianists who do not understand the wind and string sections. The last three conductors had no previous experience, the last two were graduates; the conductor-elect...
...serving supper on the field at 5 o'clock, in order to accommodate out-of-town guests. The intermissions after the first and second acts will be half an hour each in length, and trumpeters will herald the rising of each curtain by playing representative motives from the opera, after the custom at Beyreuth...