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Godounoff, the Russian opera by Moussorgsky, will be the feature of next week's repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera House, where it will have its first American hearing on Wednesday evening. It will be conducted by Mr. Toscanini, and the cast will include Madames Homer,
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Sparkes was a well known concert and opera singer in England. Dippel heard her at Covent Garden and after a private hearing offered her a contract at the Metropolitan Opera-House in 1908. She has been a member of the company ever
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Leonora Sparkes, whose name appears often on the bills of the Metropolitan Opera House, and seldom on the program of song recitals, gave a recital yesterday afternoon in Aeolian Hall that had many features of interest, and gave
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in 1913. Her career was primarily spent in London and New York, but she also sang in Paris.
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