“The curtain was descending rapidly on the last act of La Traviata, which was sung by the Metropolitan Opera company, when Miss Farrar stepped too far toward the footlights to bow to the audience.”
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“The Kaiser’s Royal Opera of Berlin, which has been a hotbed of jealous intrigue ever since the invasion of American singers began a few years ago, is agitated afresh.”
“I really didn’t say all those horrid things that were printed in the German paper under my name.”
“I have ideas about Zerlina.”
“She was literally mobbed by matinee girls of Berlin, and it required the efforts of a dozen policemen to rescue Miss Farrar from her young admirers.”
“She sounds the note of deep pathos in both action and song convincingly, and last night won the tribute of tears from many eyes.”
The reviews for Geraldine Farrar‘s Metropolitan Opera debut (Opening Night of the 1906-1907 season) could almost have been written by her own mother.
Geraldine Farrar has gone and the Gerry-flappers are disconsolate.
