Departures of note

Evgenia Bronskaya toured with the Boston Opera company in that year and the following year and was known as the 'Russian Tetrazzini'. She made a number of successful recordings for Columbia in the USA with other members of the company during this period.

A famous anecdote says Evgenia Bronskaya stepped into the role of Lucia at short notice, knowing only the main set pieces and inventing most of the recitative as she went along. The critic H.T. Parker said there was “hardly a jar to the illusion. It was gallantly done.”