EFSP's DAZZLING DOZEN: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

3 September 2016: From our friends at European Filmstar Postcards...

EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: A Night at the Opera

Nowadays, you can enjoy a night at The Metropolitan Opera in New York in your local cinema. In December 2006, The Met started a series of performance transmissions shown live in high definition in cinemas around the world. The series expanded from an initial six transmissions to 10 in the 2014–2015 season and today reaches more than 2,000 venues in 70 countries across six continents. But long before these transmissions started, several opera stars were already very popular in the cinema. Today 12 dazzling postcards of opera performers who also became film stars. READ AND SEE MORE AT 

http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2016/09/efsps-dazzling-dozen-night-at-opera.html 

SPEAKING OF CROTON'S OWN OPERATIC DIVA...

LILLIAN NORDICA, BY ROBERT SCOTT http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/02/lillian-nordica-more-chronicles-of.html