Photo copyright, 1916, by Victor Georg
Galli-Curci as Rosina in “The Barber of Seville”
Copyright photo by Dupont
Sembrich as Rosina in “The Barber of Seville”
There have been three historic failures of opera. One was the "Tannhäuser" fiasco, Paris, 1861; another, the failure of "Carmen," Paris, 1875. The earliest I have just described.