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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...
At five minutes to seven last Sunday evening a squad of actors and a battalion of New York University students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious...
Irela has refused to face the fact that she is about to sing her operatic swan-song. No longer can she reach her high notes without taking a second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched...
Summer operagoers are informal, easygoing. For them there should be staple fare, easy to look at as well as listen to. All the better if the impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels...
In New York's Polo Grounds one night last week, Aida the slave girl stood near the home plate, sang of her love and terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and...