Excerpt from Stars of the Opera: A Description of Twelve Operas and a Series of Personal Sketches, With Interviews of Marcella Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calve, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann and Nellie Melba Early in the season Of 1898 - 99 there was a performance of Traviata in the Metro politan opera-house Which might be de scribed as an occasion of superlatives including the largest auditorium, the big gest audience, the finest singers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.