It was the year of Emma Eames's coming and also of Jean de Reszke's (they sang together in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette") and "Cavalleria Rusticana" was new.

Then Delibes's opera hibernated in New York for fifteen years, after which the presence in the Metropolitan company of Mme.

Marcella Sembrich led to another "revival." (Operas which are unperformed for a term of two or three years after having been once included in the repertory are "revived" in New York.) It was sung three times in the season of 1906-1907.

It also afforded one of Mr.Hammerstein's many surprises at the Manhattan Opera House.

Five days before the close of his last season, on March 21, 1910, it was precipitated on the stage ("pitchforked" is the popular and professional term) to give Mme.