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Century Opera Company
The Century Opera Company was a New York City opera company. History It was incorporated on May 9, 1913. It was funded with a capital stock of $300,000. Edward Kellogg Baird, was president. Otto Hermann Kahn was vice-president, and Alvin W. Krech was the treasurer. In 1914, with Agide Jacchia conducting, the company premiered ''Guido Ferranti'' by Jane Van Etten Jane Van Etten, sometimes credited under her married name, Jane Van Etten Andrews (1869 - April 17, 1950), was an American composer and singer, one of the first female composers in the United States to have an opera produced by a regular opera com ..., one of the first American operas by a female composer to be produced by a regular opera company. References New York City opera companies Musical groups established in 1913 Arts organizations established in 1913 1913 establishments in New York (state) {{opera-company-stub ...
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New York City
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Edward Kellogg Baird
Edward Kellogg Baird (July 13, 1876 - 1951), was an attorney and the president of the Century Opera Company. Biography He was born on July 13, 1876. In 1913 he became president of the Century Opera Company The Century Opera Company was a New York City opera company. History It was incorporated on May 9, 1913. It was funded with a capital stock of $300,000. Edward Kellogg Baird, was president. Otto Hermann Kahn was vice-president, and Alvin W. Krech ... but resigned the same year over debts he accumulated for publications associated with the opera company. He died in 1951. References Opera managers 1876 births 1951 deaths {{opera-bio-stub ...
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Otto Hermann Kahn
Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of ''Time'' magazine and was sometimes referred to as the "King of New York". In business, he was best known as a partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who reorganized and consolidated railroads. In his personal life, he was a great patron of the arts, where among things, he served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. Life and career Otto was born on February 21, 1867, in Mannheim, Germany, and raised there, by his Jewish parents, Emma (née Eberstadt) and Bernard Kahn. His father had been among the refugees to the United States after the revolution of 1848 and had become an American citizen, but later returned to Germany. Kahn was educated in a gymnasium in Mannheim. Kahn's ambition was to be a musician, and he learned to play several instruments before he graduated from the ...
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Alvin W
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Agide Jacchia
Agide Jacchia (5 January 1875 – 29 November 1932"Montreal Opera Company/Compagnie d'opéra de Montréal"
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) was an Italian orchestral director.


Early life and education

Born in Lugo di Romagna, Jacchia studied at the Conservatory of Parma from 1886 to 1891 and at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in from 1891 to 1898. He won prizes for flute ...
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Jane Van Etten
Jane Van Etten, sometimes credited under her married name, Jane Van Etten Andrews (1869 - April 17, 1950), was an American composer and singer, one of the first female composers in the United States to have an opera produced by a regular opera company. Biography Van Etten was a native of St. Paul, Minnesota; the daughter of Isaac Van Etten, a prominent local lawyer and politician, and Jane Oakes Van Etten. She was descended from the Van Etten family of New York. She studied music and opera singing in New York City, Paris, and London. Among her teachers was Mathilde Marchesi. Her stage debut came as Siébel in ''Faust'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1895. She returned to the United States to concertize. By 1901 her reputation was good enough that Benton Harbor's orchestra was advertising itself using Van Etten's name, despite no formal connection or performances. In 1901 she married architect Alfred Burritt Andrews and settled in Evanston, Illinois. After her wedding she ...
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New York City Opera Companies
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Musical Groups Established In 1913
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Arts Organizations Established In 1913
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ...
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