What did Lincoln read?

[LincolnMan]

(07-28-2013 04:06 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Laurie, I especially enjoyed this story on your site:
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"He has but just seated himself when a harsh, croaking voice in the middle aisle, loud enough to be heard all over the house, exclaims: 'He hasn't any business here! That's all he cares for his poor soldiers!' There was a second of angry silence. Voices all over the house cried: 'Put him out! Put him out!' Above all this clamor the wrathful note of a German soldier was heard, shouting; 'De Bresident has a right to hees music! He is goot to come! He shall haf hees music! Dot is vot I shay! He shall haf hees music!'"

Bill, I think at that performance he said about the leading female singer's large flat feet that "the beetles would not have much of a chance there"? (to Col. Wilson).

According to historian A. Guelzo, Lincoln attended the opera in Washington nineteen times. Other operas I found out were Gounod's "Faust", Weber's "Freischütz", Flotow's "Martha", Bellini's "Norma" and Donizetti's "Fille du Régiment". And a musical play called "Gamea or the Jewish mother".

But I didn't find anything about the places (or the size of the orchestras).

Pretty "high-brow" entertainment for the self-educated Lincoln (some might say).