Production

Nom de la Production 1910Dec24, Lotta's Fountain, Last Rose of Summer, The
Types des Arts du Spectacle Opera, European
Date de Début [ Décembre 24, 1910] December 24, 1910
Date de Fin [ Décembre 24, 1910] December 24, 1910
Type de la Production [Evénement] Single event
Emplacemente(s) de la Production Lotta's Fountain (San Francisco)
Pièce(s) dans la Production Last Rose of Summer, The, Auld Lang Syne
Source(s) San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
Personnes dans la Production Tetrazzini, Luisa ([Chanteur] Singer)
Arts du spectacle dans la Production Singing, Playing music
Notes About 250,000 people gathered in the streets around Lotta's Fountain in downtown San Francisco to hear Luisa Tetrazzini give a free concert on Christmas Eve, 1910. According to her contract with Oscar Hammerstein, impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Tetrazzini was barred from singing under any management but his. Tetrazzini disputed the contract, and got around the restriction by staging a free concert (against her policy of ever singing for nothing) for her favorite audience, the people of San Francisco. At the end of the concert, the crowd joined in in singing "Auld Lang Syne." By all accounts, it was a powerful, moving event that deeply touched those present. Tetrazzini was to talk about it as her most enthusiastic audience ever, and as her "night of nights," for the rest of her life. SFPALM

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