WHY DO PEOPLE GO TO THE
OPERA ?
(To the Editor.)
Sir. —Being a lover of music I went to a recent performance. There were two women sitting next to me who talked loudly and incessantly all through the beautiful singing of Richard Tauber, in spite of protests from people all round. During the interval I had my seat changed to one ten seats away from them, hoping to hear something of the opera. Not a hope! Whenever the music became a
little louder than their voices they raised them, and shouted above it. Parts of the intermezzo, so beautifully rendered by the orchestra, were completely lost. Why such people go to a musical entertainment is a mystery to me. With memories of operas visited in London and Paris, where doors are closed, and nobody even allowed to enter once the music commences, lean only suggest for Wellington a strongarmed ex-serviceman, with full authority to act to remove disturbers like these, and give those who go to hear the music a chance to do so.—l am, etc., MABEL CHRISTMAS-HARVEY. "
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 140, 10 December 1935, Page 8
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