English Music in the Xixth Century

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In 1887, Mr. (afterwards Sir Augustus) Harris undertook the task of reinstat- ing the opera on a firmer footing and attracting on the one hand the fashionable world, which had given up attending operatic performances, and on the other, the musical public, which had got tired of the " star " system, and wished to see operas properly staged and prepared at all points. From the first the help of the established favourites of the public in the soprano department was eschewed, with the single except...ion of Mme. Albani, who joined the new crusade after a year or two. At first even such singers as Mme. Melba, Mme. Nor- dica, Miss Macintyre, and Miss Ella Russell had to fight their way into renown. Favour, so far as it was shown to any performers, was given to the brothers De Reszke, who have been the idols of the subscribers ever since. In ] 889 it seemed an over-bold experiment to announce a performance of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette in the original French, but the result was that this work, which years before had been one of the least popular operas in Mme.

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