Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor trouble caused by student "supers" at the Boston Opera House became a threat to the harmony of the Metropolitan Opera Association yesterday, when the students protested against their treatment at the performance of "La Boheme" on Tuesday night...
...spite of an understanding that they may listen to the opera from the wings after finishing on the stage they were mercilessly herded into the alley on this occasion...
Next month Lowell House is planning to present an opera which merits considerable attention. Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" is without doubt the greatest of English operas and may safely be ranked among the outstanding musical dramas of all time...
Seventy-five students are acting as "supers" at the Boston Opera House this week where the Metropolitan Opera Company is presenting a ten day "season." Ranging in number from five in "La Boheme" to 52 in this Saturday's production of "Aida" they stand on the stage in mob scenes and where extras are needed, and get paid a dollar a performance. The following hold jobs...
Died. Helena Woolworth McCann, wife of Manhattan Lawyer Charles E. F. McCann and eldest daughter of the late 5?-&-10? store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth; after short illness; in Manhattan. A director of F. W. Woolworth Co., she helped support the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, three years ago gave to her three children more than...