Brilliant Opera Night Delights Boston Audiences
First night of opera charms Boston with dazzling jewel display and stylish society figures. Sibiriakoff earns roaring applause while Carmen Melis debuts. Lydia Lipkowska stuns in a gold train and Russian headpiece. Governor Draper’s family attends as social circles mingle. Encores banned. late arrivals kept out until prologue ends.
Mefistofele Opens Boston Opera House Season With Sibiriakoff
The second season of opera at the Boston Opera House opens with Boito's Mefistofele. Leon Sibiriakoff debuts as Mefistofele to strong praise for his voice, presence, and interpretation. The production is described as one of the most pretentious and successful from last season, with a standout Walpurgis Night and a vivid Marguerite in Boito's vision. The ensemble is praised, while other debutants Carmen Melis and Robert Lassalie are noted for their appearances, and Marguerite’s fate and crucial garden and Tempe scenes receive emphasis. The article lists numerous box holders and orchestra-seat patrons for the opening week.
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Boston
Andre Caplet
Europe
Sibiriakoff
Carmen Melis
Oscar Iammerstein
Boston Opera Company
Boston Opera House
Boito
Mefistofele
Leon Sibiriakoff
Faust
Robert l Lassalle
Marguerite
Frances Alda
Helen of Troy
Martha and Pantalis
Maria Claessens
Wagner
C. Stroesco
Nereo
Ernesto Giaccone
Arnold Conti
Regis
Gounod
Berlioz
Schumann
Goethe
Liszt
Noth
Heaven
Meyerbeer
Aust
Helen
Vale of Tempe
Tosca
Thais
Melis
Alda
Arturo Toscanini
Mme. Claessens
Stroesco
Conti
Miss Lipkowska
Mr. Baklanoff
Box Holders at the Opera House 1910 11 season list
A Boston Opera House notice lists Monday box holders for 1910 11 with box numbers and patrons addresses. Notables include Mrs H N Slater Hyde Park Theodore N Vail 1 Milk, L Cartaret Fenno Quincy Shaw 288 Beacon, Miss Susan Thayer Eugene V Thayer 353 Commonwealth, Oliver Ames 96 Ames Building.
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Charles S. Bird
Walpole
Robert G. Shaw
Commonwealth Avenue
Henry S. Hunnewell
Milk Street
Mary B. Brandegee
C. B. Wood
Shawmut Bank
A. Lawrence Rotch
William H. Ames
B. P. Cheney
Marlboro Street
Andrew C. Wheelwright
Lincoln
Eben S. Draper
Beacon Street
N. L. Amster
Devonshire Street
Charles R. Hayden
Fannie M. Faulkner
Reed Anthony
State Street
Frank E. Peabody
John Longyear
Brookline
A. L. Allen
Kingsbury Street
Chestnut Hill
Andrew Adie
Federal Street
K. W. Converse
Franklin Street
R. M. Saltonstall
Edwin S. Webster
Larz Anderson
Converse
Westwood
J. H. Burgess
Dedham
Philip Wrenn
George P. Rice
Richard D. Sears
William O. Blake
Temple Place
Lester Leland
James J. Storrow
George R. Fearing
Congress Street
Bayard Thayer
Bryce J. Allan
Eben D. Jordan
Herbert M. Sears
Nathaniel Thayer
Henry D. Burnham
Charles Hayden
William Hewson Baltzell
Wellesley
Francis Peabody
Devonshire Building
Chester W. Lasell
Whitinsville
Mass
Walter ©. Baylies
Richard M. Saltonstall
William Lincoln Parker
Dartmouth Street
Thomas W. Lawson
Charles G. Weld
Bay State Road
Frederick Ayer
Oliver Building
Fanny P. Mason
Robert S. Bradley
William B. Walker
Arthur E. Davis
Dover
Robert B. Evans
Gloucester Street
Gloucester
William C. Endicott
Winthrop Sargent
John Lawrence
Horatio A. Lamb
Milton
Frederick FE. Snow
Charles H. Taylor
Boston Globe
Alex
R. I
Francis G. Shaw
R. G. Shaw
Care Fy E. Snow
William M. Wood
Fairfield Street
Frederick S. Whitwell
Grant Walker
J. Brooks Fenno
Kilby Street
Walter D. Denegre
Manchester
John Chipman Gray
Gray
Samuel Cabot
F. Gordon Dexter
William H. Hill
George G. Davis
Stephen H. Bennett
Boston Opera House
H. N. Slater
Hyde Park
J. A. Garland
William J. Wright
F. C. Curtis
John L. Gardner
Fenway Court
Theodore N. Vail
William Lindsey
William Lindsey. Box No. 8—L. Cartaret Fenno
Quincy A. Shaw
William A. Ames
North Easton
Susan Thayer
Eugene V. R. Thayer
Mary
Ames
Frederick L. Ames
George A. Gardner
Galen J. Stone
Stanley McCormick
Oliver Ames
Ames Building
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Lydia Lipkowska
Fair Sex
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Wiliam Guard
Manhatan Opera Company
Mr. Catti-Gassara
Thomas Quinlan
London
Imprespario
George Maxwell
House of Records
Milan
Russell Ee Enry
Dadmun
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