Abstract
Melba had left Covent Garden after the summer season of 1902. During it she had appeared as Gilda to Caruso’s Duke at the Italian tenor’s London début. She had sung earlier with him at Monte Carlo and ‘reported enthusiastically’ about him to the Garden’s management, but he was not an overnight success. It was only when he sang Rodolfo to Melba’s Mimi on 24 May that the box office began to respond. Blanche Marchesi sang Elizabeth, Leonora, Elsa and Isolde in the autumn season.
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© 1986 Thérèse Radic
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Radic, T. (1986). Manhattan Versus Metropolitan. In: Melba. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08670-2_8
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