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For the second season of the Metropolitan Opera, the board of directors engaged Leopold Damrosch as general manager and music director. A friend of Wagner and Liszt, he was founder and conductor of the New York Symphony and New York Oratorio Society. In contrast to the theater’s inaugural season, when high-priced international stars performed all operas in Italian, Damrosch proposed a roster of experienced but economic singing-actors from Central Europe, with all works sung in German. Damrosch’s orchestra was part of the agreement, performing in the pit of the opera house for seven seasons, and members of the Oratorio Society on occasion augmented the new chorus recruited in Germany.
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Fitzgerald, G., Tuggle, R. (1989). German Interlude 1884–91. In: Fitzgerald, G., Tuggle, R. (eds) Annals of the Metropolitan Opera. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11976-9_9
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