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...serious loss of prestige. The great stars whom Gatti found waiting for him when he took the directorship passed with the years ? Caruso died and Farrar left the organization. Stars as great have not arisen to take their places, yet the standing of the opera has gone higher. Titta Ruffo and Gallf-Curci have created no new glories for the Metropolitan. Among the newcomers only Jeritza has achieved something like old time Metropolitan stardom. It is here that we encounter an interesting phase upon which the coming season will have large bearing...
Campanini achieved fine success. He assembled a company of old Hammerstein stars and new ones of his own, one of the most brilliant companies ever assembled, with Mary Garden, Galli-Curci, Titta Ruffo, Muratore, Raisa, Baklanoff and others. He put on opera equal in general to the Metropolitan's best and in many respects more interesting. His New York seasons were awaited in the Metropolitan home grounds with eagerness. Though he did not make money for the company, did not "break even," he, nevertheless, achieved glories for Chicago, kept the peace in his company with suave authority, displayed great genius...
...Steinert series of five concerts in Symphony Hall begins next Sunday afternoon with Titta Ruffo, the famous baritone. The dates of the other concerts, all on Sunday afternoons, are as follows: November 5, Sophie Braslau, contralto, and Emilio de Gogorza, baritone; January 28, Frances Alda, soprano of the Metropolitan, and Alexander Siloti, planist: February 18, Alfred Cortot, French planist, and Jacques Thibaud, a violinist fully appreciated only by a small but discriminating public; and on a date to be announced later, John McCormack, popular Irish tenor...