Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some of the best-known of the regular members of the Boston Opera Company are Lina Cavalieri, Emmy Destinn, Louise Edvina, Mary Garden, Alice Nielson, Evelyn Scotney, Louisa Tetrazinni, Maria Gay, Cara Sapin, Edmond Clement, Vincenno Tantongo, and Vanni Marcoux. It is expected that the following artists will appear occasionally: Frances Alda, Alessandro Bonci, Enrico Caruso, Florencio Constantino, Olive Fremstad, Johanna Gadski, Lillian Nordica, and Antonio Scotti...
...fifth season of Grand Opera is to open at the Boston Opera House next Monday, when there will be a performance of Wolf-Ferrari's "I Gioielli della Madonna." This season promises to be an unusually fine one, since many famous singers are to be in the casts, and Messrs. Felix Weingartner, Andre-Caplet and Moranzoni have been re-engaged as principal conductors...
...list of operas to be given this season includes, in addition to the regular repertoire of last year, three not before presented by the Boston Opera Company. One of these has never before been produced in America, and another is to have its first presentation in the world. These operas are Wagner's "Die Meistersinger," Zandonai and D'Annunzio's "Francesca da Rimini," and Fevrier and Maeterlinck's "Monna Vanna." The latter will have its first American presentation here early in December; Miss Garden will be Monna Vanna, Mr. Muratore the Prinzivalle, and Mr. Marcoux the Guido, "Francesca da Rimini...
There is an old argument that colleges located in or near large cities offer to their students unlimited cultural advantages; and this argument is really founded on fact, at least in the case of Harvard. There are, surrounding this University, all the opportunities of the opera, museums, libraries, and theatres of Boston, and, equal to any or several of these, the free lecture courses at the Lowell Institute. The course which is particularly worthy of notice at this time is Mr. Noyes's series on "The Sea in English Poetry," which has been so popular as to warrant the scheduling...
...Harvard Opera Association has completed very satisfactory arrangements for the coming season. In the matter of finances, a gift of $500 has just been received, and the treasury is on a firm basis. The Association has also acquired the use of 4 additional seats in the orchestra. The membership is now over 1000; those who still wish to join, however, may do so at Amee...