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Title: More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923
Subjects: Opera
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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rk, where she sang atthe Academy of Music on November 26, 1883. She cameto the Metropolitan Opera House with an Italian companywhich, under the management of Abbey and Grau, gave aseries of 21 performances after the close of the Germanseason of 1889-90. She was also a member of the companywith which Mr. Abbey re-established Italian opera at theMetropolitan in 1901-02, having been engaged for the ex-press purpose of singing the part of Selika in LAfri-caine, but when the time came Mme. Lehmann had to bebrought in to make the performance possible. Thereaftershe was a familiar figure at the Metropolitan until she joinedMr. Hammersteins forces for a brief season at the Man-hattan Opera House ; but her finest success, and it was reallya memorable one, was achieved in 1895, when she sangIsolde to Jean de Reszkes Tristan at the Broadway house.Then for the first time it was possible for the reviewer toindulge in something more than praise of her beauty andperfunctory compliments on her voice.
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Enrico CarusoIn Samson et Dalila CHAPTER XIV THE YEARS OF THE NEUTRALITY OF THEUNITED STATES IN THE WAR REDUCTION OF EXPENSES PLANNED—CARUSO AND FARRAR—PHENOMENAL ACTIVITY OF THE COMPANY—NEW SINGERSAND THEIR DEBUTS—THE SEASON 1914-15—NEW OPERAS— MADAME SANS-GENE — LORACOLO — EURYANTHE —WEBER AND WAGNER—THE LATTERS DEBTS TO THE FORMER—DEPARTURE OF ALFRED HERTZ—HIS RECORD AT THEMETROPOLITAN—THE LOSS OF TOSCANINI—SEASON OF 1915-16 —ARRIVAL OF MME. BARRIENTOS — PRINCE IGOR — GOYESCAS —SPANISH PIANOFORTE PIECES MADE INTO ANOPERA—FATE OF THE COMPOSER—A GERMAN VERSION OFTHE TAMING OF THE SHREW, — 1916-17 — UNNATURALACTIVITY— LES PECHEURS DE PERLES —ITS AMERICANHISTORY—GLUCKS IPHIGENIA AUF TAURIS — THE CAN-TERBURY PILGRIMS—A SPORADIC BUT IDEAL EFFORT FORAMERICAN ART—THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN SINGERS-MOZARTS BASTIEN ET BASTIENNE AND THE IMPRE-SARIO For three years after the outbreak of the great war inwhich at the last Germany found herself

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