Michigan State University Professor of Music Harlan Jennings delivers a talk at the MSU Main Library entitled, "Her Majesty's Opera Company in Kansas City". Jennings describes the nineteenth century cross country tours of British impresario James Henry Mapleson and Henry Abbey's Metropolitan Opera, as they compete for crowds, popularity and operatic supremacy in the heartland of the United States. A question and answer session follows. MSU Music Librarian Mary Black Junttonen introduces Jennings. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series.
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