01 Nov 2005
Königskinder, Bavarian State Opera, Munich
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0cc15742-4a7c-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0cc15742-4a7c-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html
By Shirley Apthorp [Financial Times, 1 November 2005]
Geraldine Farrar trained her own flock of geese for the 1910 premiere of Humperdinck's Königskinder at the Metropolitan Opera. The opera was a huge success. History does not relate what became of the geese.