Chapter X Operatic Revolutions
The Season 1883-1884 at the Academy of Music
Lillian Nordica’s American Début
German Opera Introduced at the Metropolitan Opera House
Parlous State of Italian Opera in London and on the Continent
Dr. Leopold Damrosch and His Enterprise
The German Singers
Amalia Materna
Marianne Brandt
Marie Schroeder-Hanfstängl
Anton Schott, the Military Tenor
Von Bülow’s Characterization: “A Tenor is a Disease”