The opera season just closed has been a busy and a brilliant'one, and extra work has fallen to Madame Emma Eames, for Madame Melba has sung only at private functions, and Madame Nordica, through her own fault, it would seem, has been shelved. Ido not know the entire history of Madame Nordica's quarrel with the handsome tenor De Reszke, but I do know that it is rather easier to replace a prime donna than to replace a tenor. So as De Reszke would" not sing with Nordica, he gained his point and she was boycotted until she apologised to him. T confess he seems to me to have been rather lacking in gallantry. I remember some years ago,
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