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Through a good part of the nineteenth century, the artistic heart of New York lay at Fourteenth Street and Irving Place, where the Academy of Music opened its doors in 1854. Here the world’s most famous singers regularly appeared— Etelka Gerster, Minnie Hauk, Adelina Patti. As years went by, however, and new fortunes were made in banking, railroads and real estate, more millionaires materialized in New York than the scanty boxes of the Academy could accommodate.
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Fitzgerald, G., Tuggle, R. (1989). Inaugural Season 1883–84. In: Fitzgerald, G., Tuggle, R. (eds) Annals of the Metropolitan Opera. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11976-9_8
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