Showing posts with label Luisa Tetrazzini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luisa Tetrazzini. Show all posts

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Tetrazzini Served in the Streets 100 Years Ago

The San Francisco Gate takes a fascinating look back at an historic event and a tantalizing soprano:

On Christmas Eve, exactly 100 years ago, Luisa Tetrazzini, the most famous opera singer of her day, sang in the streets of San Francisco as a gift to the city she loved. There was a huge throng present that night - some said as many as 250,000 people - but they are all gone now and only the memory remains, like the ghost of Christmas past.