April 5, 1920: Some 6,000 people filled the 13th Regiment Armory in Scranton on a cold Easter Monday to listen to one of the greatest voices in opera – Enrico Caruso.Caruso wowed the crowd with ...

At its London premiere in 1728, John Gay's rollicking Beggar's Opera caused a sensation. Lampooning the politics and public morality of the day, it became an instant hit. Get The Beggar's Opera Email ...

1888 Durand’s Opera House was built, originally as a one-story building that housed a stove and a hardware store. 1891 The retail space was converted into an opera house, with the addition of a rear ...

Premiered in 1920, his full-length opera Die Tote Stadt was hugely successful around Europe in that decade, but his reputation has unfairly been clouded by his move to Hollywood in the 1930s and his ...

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