Signals for Curtains Up! sounded last week almost simultaneously in San Francisco and Chicago for another opera season. San Francisco’s curtain-raiser was a smoothly-run performance of Halevy’s La ...

Elisabeth Rethberg returned to the Metropolitan Opera Monday evening and succeeded-believe it or not!-in transtorming teh inanity of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly”into something dramatic adn even at ...

San Francisco, which takes its opera between other cities’ seasons so as to get good singers, was last week in the middle of its ninth annual opera fortnight. It heard an ably done Aïda (Soprano ...