Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...program will be as follows: 1. Comic Opera Gems, Mandolin Club 2. Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road, Glee Club 3. Onion Rag, Banjo Club 4. Ciribiribin, Mandolin Club 5. Little Cotton Dolly, Glee Club 6. Harvardiana, Banjo Club 7. Sword of Ferrara, Glee Club 8. Second Conneticut March, Mandolin Club 9. Fair Harvard, Glee Club
...music and dancing, the humor being left mainly to the inspiration of individual performers. This, in view of the Pudding's traditions, is unfortunate; but it is fair to say that the Pudding theatricals have as a rule contained quite as much comedy as the average modern comic opera. This year's performance would fall distinctly below even this level of humor were it not for G. P. Gardner's remarkable take-off of a noted dancer's "dance of the five senses." This travesty is so funny and so well done that it lends to the whole performance...
...Pipe of Desire," with music by Mr. F. S. Converse '93 was presented last Friday evening at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. This is the first time that an opera with music by an American composer, has been performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company. From 1902 to 1905 Mr. Converse was an instructor in the Department of Music, and in 1905 was appointed assistant professor. In 1906 he gave up teaching to devote all his time to composing...
...Louis Allard, instructor in French, will give the first of a series of readings from French writers this evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J from "Griselidis," a mystery in three acts by Armand Silvestre and Eugene Morand. It is from this play that Massenet has taken his opera, which Mary Garden will sing in Boston next month. The reading will be open to the public...
Plans have been made by the Deutscher Verein for the production of a German comic opera in Boston under its auspices. Mr. Dippel, administrative manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, has been found willing to give such an opera during the engagement of the Opera Company at the Boston Opera House late this month. A guarantee will have to be given to the Opera Company and the Verein is now engaged procuring the pledges...