GRAND OPERA.
STATEMENT BT MR. HAMMERSTEIN. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. January 17, 10.10 p.m.) London, January 17. Mr. Oscar Hammerstein states unless opera lovers subscribe more generously to boxes and stalls, it will be impossible to continue his London Opera House, which cost .£350,000. Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, formerly director of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, completed the erection of a splendid new Opera House in Kingsway, London, some three or four months ago, with the idea of producing grand opera on a scale hitherto unknown in London. He is evidently finding that it takes a deal of money to run grand opera, even in London. Grand opera seldom pays. It nevor does in New York, where it" is backed by millionaires, and in France, Italy, and Germany it has to be heavily subsidised by the State.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 5
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137GRAND OPERA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1340, 18 January 1912, Page 5
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