YOU may as well devote at least part of your summer to the study of English, for it appears that there will be not less than three associations presenting opera in that language in town next season.

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Critic Charles Henry Meltzer was last week quoted in Musical America on the perenniel topic of opera in English. Said Critic Meltzer : “Without English, opera will either die here before many years, ...