New Yorks Opera Season Opens Aka New Yorks Opera Season Opens (1937)

Title reads: New York s Opera Season opens. United States of America, USA. Various shots of limousines pulling up outside Manhattan s Metropolitan Opera House. Rich looking people get out and walk into foyer of theatre. The men wear top hats, the women wear expensive looking furs. C, U of soprano, Kirsten Flagstad back stage. She is having a long, blonde wig fitted. Lauritz Melchior, opera singer, sits at his dressing room mirror. His wife (another singer) adjusts his wig. M, S of people drinking cocktails in club room. Various shots of people taking their seats in the auditorium. We see the curtains opening. L, S of curtain closing. We see performers taking their bows. Various shots of people applauding around the auditorium. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT