TIME Goes to the Opera

1933: Lawrence M. Tibbett
"Twenty times last week a strapping, coffee-colored man in a baby-blue wrapper went out in front of the curtain of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to bow right & left in a shattering storm of applause. Ten times there appeared with him a stocky, wavy-haired man in busi- ness clothes who stood and looked bewildered. The coffee-colored man was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, the bewildered one Composer Louis Gruenberg.... New York had witnessed the premiere of the most exciting U. S. opera yet written."
From: O'Neill into Opera, Jan. 16, 1933

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