The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises . e problem ahappy thought struck the singer. He jumpedinto a cab and drove to the Manhattan Opera-House where he found Hammerstein and askedif there was an engagement for him. After ashort discussion Hammerstein made him aproposition for a five years contract, which heaccepted, and a couple of hours later the mes-sage came from the Metropolitan Opera-Houseagreeing to the ten performances, but it wastoo late. On his resignation
The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises . e problem ahappy thought struck the singer. He jumpedinto a cab and drove to the Manhattan Opera-House where he found Hammerstein and askedif there was an engagement for him. After ashort discussion Hammerstein made him aproposition for a five years contract, which heaccepted, and a couple of hours later the mes-sage came from the Metropolitan Opera-Houseagreeing to the ten performances, but it wastoo late. On his resignation from the Boston OperaCompany a dinner was given in his honor andmuch appreciation expressed regarding his ar-tistic work. An anecdote is told of Constantineau to theeffect that one day in Bilbao, — his native city,— he was standing on the street watching theefforts of a shabby individual to squeeze out afew notes from a guitar so as to procure somemoney from the people, for dinner and crowd was unsympathetic. Constanti-neaus sympathies being aroused he took theguitar, and stood by the mans side, he passed round the hat and gathered up. Copyright by Mishkin Studio, New York FLORENCIO CONSTANTINEAU AS CAVARADOSSI IN TOSCAn The Boston Opera-House 377 a substantial sum, which he handed with thehat to the unfortunate musician. A singer who made a genuine sensationduring the first season of the Boston Operawas George Baklanoff, a Russian baritone, whowhile studying law at the University of , had found that singing was his truevocation. Immediately after securing his* de-gree at the university Baklanoff was offeredan operatic engagement in one of the smallerRussian cities. A month later he was called tothe Imperial Opera-House at Moscow, where hemade his debut in The Demon (Rubin-steins opera) in 1905, and since that time re-mained inseparable from the successful pro-ductions at Moscow. In Boston BaklanofT made his debut as Bar-naba in La Gio
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