Word: primae
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...went back afterwards looking for the prima donna, found her in her stocking feet, just not able to get back into her tight new shoes. Thus Mrs. Long found a new pupil; and the career was launched...
...spring of 1898 Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
...singers, the chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room by the stairs and fixed...
...revival of Norma had been announced and thereupon had followed much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...
...Love Call. Arizona, a melodrama which flourished in 1900, is now set to music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...