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Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Both Millay's extraordinary life-story and her celebrity lifestyle drew malicious or demeaning attention in the press. Griffin Barry , an ex-lover, led the field with a piece in the New Yorker just before her opera...
Performance of text Ethel Smyth
ES 's second opera, Der Wald, became the first by a woman to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
430
Performance of text Edna St Vincent Millay
The opera The King's Henchman, with Deems Taylor 's music and ESVM 's libretto, opened at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
286-7
Textual Production Una Troubridge
After this UT went on tour with Rossi-Lemeni throughout Europe and the USA.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
299-301
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
374
The Emperor Jones had premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 7 January 1933 to jazz-influenced music by Louis Gruenberg .

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9 October 1949: Margot Fonteyn received high praise when...

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9 October 1949

Margot Fonteyn received high praise when the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet performed for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
401

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