With pomp and circumstance last week Italians began their formal opera season. In Rome Soprano Claudia Muzio sang in Norma and His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele went to listen, with Queen Elena and Princess Giovanna. In Milan the opera was Meistersinger, the ovation for Conductor Arturo Toscanini. He leaves Milan soon for the U. S. where he will conduct the last half-season of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony.
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