Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...series of ten operatic concerts will be given by leading singers of the Boston Opera Company in Sanders Theatre this winter during January, February and March. Professor W. R. Spalding '87 and Mr. E. B. Hill '94 will give lectures during the concerts on the significance and historical relationship of the selections rendered. These concerts were organized by Professor Spalding and Mr. Alexander Kahn, concert manager of the Boston Opera Company, and have the support of many Harvard graduates who are on the board of directors of the Boston Opera House. Their object is to give members of the University...
Selections from different operas will be sung at the concerts, illustrating the development of the opera from the 17th century to the present day. Beginning with Italian composers such as Monteverda and Scarlotti, selections will be rendered next from Lully and Rameau, and German operas by Gluck, Mozart, Von Weber, and others, down to the works of modern composers such as Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, and Verdi. Among the prominent opera singers who will probably take part, are Constantine, Bernice Fisher, Maria Gay, Zenatello, Kaphek Mardones, Tavecchia, and Slezak...
...program will be as follows: Cherubini, Overture to the Opera "Lodoiska"; Brahms, Symphony in E minor, No. 4, op. 98; Aria; Debussy, Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"; Aria; Gilbert, Comedy Overture on Negro Themes...
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCIIESTRA CONCERT. Soloist: Miss Lilla Ormond. Sanders Theatre, 8 P. M. Program: Cheurbini, Overture to the Opera "Lodoiska"; Brahms, Symphony in E minor, No. 4, op. 08; Aria; Debussy, prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"; Aria; Gillbert, Comedy Overture on Negro Themes...
...book? Yes, the book was pretty evasive, like all well-behaved comic opera librettos. A princess, dwelling in a land where thinness is held to be a vice, proves an eyesore to her noble parent because she has not been able to acquire sufficient avoirdupois to be accounted a beauty. A young American happens to disagree with the ideas of the community regarding the beautiful, and informs the young lady that she is his ideal. She is discovered by her sister in the arms of the stranger, and the news is conveyed to her "papa". The stranger flees...