Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrated before the civil war with greater popular participation and solemn pomp than anywhere else in the world, were back to normal last week, with His Eminence Pedro Cardinal Segura officiating. Once again all Seville turned out, cigaret workers from the factory of Carmen in Bizet's famed opera shouldering their gorgeous, gold, bejeweled Madonna of Victory...
...Imperial Bank of Iran, set back from the street, needed an entire square. Slowly rising to completion is an Imperial Opera House to cater to the hitherto undiscovered musical tastes of Iran's citizens...
...most ambitious musical program ever attempted by a House, "Dido and Aeneas" promises a future series of musicals of a very high type. Perhaps some year an entirely original opera will be performed, and when that happens, Harvard will be matured musically as it is on other parts of its culture...
Employing Radcliffe girls in their many female singing and dancing parts and even in the orchestra, the Lowell House Musical Society will give Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" under the direction of Courtlandt canby, Conductor and Alan Downer, Dramatic Director, at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell Dining Hall...
...opera was written in 1689 by Purcell and Josiah Priest for production by a girls' school. Hence the preponderance of ballet. "Purcell and Priest were an operatic team like Gershwin and--well like Gershwin," Canby explained...