Reminiscences of the Opera
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Again a strict official surveillance was to be exercised in almost every department. The management of a theatre is still less '' a bed of roses " in Paris than elsewhere. Yet more exorbitant than the pretensions of the officials were those of persons who could in any way, or on any ''peg" of privilege, hang- up a claim to gratuitous entrees. Scarcely was it bruited abroad tliat my effi)rts had been crowned with success, and that I might now be accosted as " Monsieur le Directeur du Theatre cle... T Opera Italien a Paris, " than J was stifled beneath a very avalanche of applications VICTOR HUGO AND RACHEL. 293 for favours to the writers or their proteges. Artists of every kind were recommended, not only by persons of the highest influence, but by mere '' nobodies. " Places were demanded in the administration of the service in- terieur. Advice was hurled at my unfortunate head, including even remonstrances against what might possi- bly be in contemplation !
Another impediment, peculiar to the position of the Italian Opera at Paris, met me on the very threshold of my enterprise.
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Again a strict official surveillance was to be exercised in almost every department. The management of a theatre is still less '' a bed of roses " in Paris than elsewhere. Yet more exorbitant than the pretensions of the officials were those of persons who could in any way, or on any ''peg" of privilege, hang- up a claim to gratuitous entrees. Scarcely was it bruited abroad tliat my effi)rts had been crowned with success, and that I might now be accosted as " Monsieur le Directeur du Theatre cle... T Opera Italien a Paris, " than J was stifled beneath a very avalanche of applications VICTOR HUGO AND RACHEL. 293 for favours to the writers or their proteges. Artists of every kind were recommended, not only by persons of the highest influence, but by mere '' nobodies. " Places were demanded in the administration of the service in- terieur. Advice was hurled at my unfortunate head, including even remonstrances against what might possi- bly be in contemplation !
Another impediment, peculiar to the position of the Italian Opera at Paris, met me on the very threshold of my enterprise.
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