When your history of Covent Garden is complete, you may join my future project, which is to investigate the history of Opera Houses in Eastern Oregon. Here is one ref.:
http://members.tripod.com/~rexs13/Sumpter.htm Here, another: http://www.elginoperahouse.com/ Here is the diary of the sort of man who might have bought a ticket: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/105.1/dielman.htmlMy question is this, "Was there any opera involved?" Did these folk, who were hoping to strike it rich, think that they needed a touch of Verdi or Wagner in the wilderness to reassure themselves that they had not fallen off the edge of the map, or was "opera" a euphemism of some sort?
Answers on the back of a gold nugget, please, to: David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
