A Guest Blog By Project Co-Director, Professor William Everett In 1910 impresario Oscar Hammerstein sold his interests in his Manhattan Opera Company to his chief rival, the Metropolitan Opera, and agreed not to produce any opera in New York City for a decade. Instead, he turned his attention toward the related genre of operetta and commissioned the noted composer-conductor Victor Herbert to write a new work that wo…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 12:41PM on June 1, 2012