Music: Boston Opera

Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid.

Last week a third fiasco occurred. A newly organized Boston Grand Opera Company (in whose personnel were Russian Soprano Anna Lissetzkaya, Baritone Pasquale Amato, Soprano Dorothy Speare) was scheduled to open its second week. Singers backstage applied...

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