The True Story Behind the OPERA Wars in The Gilded Age

[@sarahcantrell9821]

This was super informational and interesting. Nice work!

[@marina_via]

thank you, Sarah! So glad you enjoyed!

[@jerrbear54]

Excellent!!!

[@gracehowell.]

I've never seen 'The Gilded Age'; but anything to do with opera has my attention. My favourite exciting opera story is that they were worried there might be a bomb scare at the opening of 'Tosca', and the orchestra had to be prepared to play the national anthem to get people out of the theatre.

[@marina_via]

wow, interesting! Who's they btw, the Met?

[@gracehowell.]

@@marina_via I think it was the Italian government? Some important person was going to the opera that night, and there were a lot of political tensions. Not sure how familiar you are with the story of 'Tosca'; it was a play first, and it's set during the Napoleonic wars. So yeah, by the time the opera version of the play was going to premiere, people were already stirred up in the streets, and there were fears of rioting and stuff.