Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing pleased the Dutch more than the clear success of their own new opera. The Dutch government and the city of Amsterdam, recognizing a new national asset when they see one, have agreed to meet half the budget of the young company until...
...steaming summer evening, many U.S. music lovers would as soon sit down to leeward of an elephant as go to a hot & heavy grand opera. Cincinnati's indefatigable music lovers, however, like to do both...
...fanning, and listening to Carmen or Il Trovatore or La Traviata, sung by big voices from the Met. Admission: 90? to $3.50. Between acts, operagoers washed the arias down with beer, munched popcorn and fed ducks and swans on a nearby pond. The 28th season of the Cincinnati Summer Opera had begun...
First-night attendance at Giordano's little-known work was small: the company lost $5,000 on the performance. But thanks to Cincinnati's loyal music lovers, the "Zoopera" could afford such losses. Last winter, after the opera had accumulated a deficit of some $44,000, Cincinnatians subscribed to a whopping Fine Arts Fund to support the summer series along with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum. The opera...
...since before the depression had the opera rested on such a fat financial cushion. When Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and Mrs. Mary Emery died, the purse strings that had long supported the opera were cut. Public support all but failed. In 1934, the wealthy patrons were looking for a way to drop their expensive hobby. The A.F.M. local agreed to take it up. Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers...