From the Book - [1st ed.].
1. The Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company:
The Henry Abbey Opera Company, 1883-4
The De Reszkes and the "golden age of song"
The Abbey-Schoeffel-Grau Opera Company, 1891-7
The Maurice Grau Opera Company, 1897-1903
The Conried Metropolitan Opera Company, 1903-8
2. The Metropolitan Opera Company
The years of Toscanini, 1908-15
The First War years, 1915-21
The post-Caruso seasons, 1921-32
3. The Metropolitan Opera Association
Depression and deficit, 1932-5
The Johnson period, 1935-50
Postlude: Bing and beyond.
