{"id":47993,"date":"2024-09-24T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/81606e38-e287-4f9d-a768-df39c837c50d"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:08:35","slug":"divas-behaving-badly-how-the-roaring-twentiess-opera-stars-kept-themselves-in-the-limelight","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/divas-behaving-badly-how-the-roaring-twentiess-opera-stars-kept-themselves-in-the-limelight\/","title":{"rendered":"Divas behaving badly: how the Roaring Twenties’s opera stars kept themselves in the limelight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Tuesday, 24 September 2024 at 11:26 AM<\/p>

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The explosion in popular culture that took place in 1920s Britain gave a huge boost to the concept of celebrity as we know it today. This was a decade that saw the rise of the sporting personality, as the nation went crazy for cricket, tennis and golf and the racecourse became the place for the well-to-do to show off the latest fashions. <\/p>

Dance band leaders such as Jack Hylton, known as the \u2018British King of Jazz\u2019, grabbed the headlines and, accordingly, watched their bank balances swell. Elsewhere, ballet was going through a particular vogue, with audiences flocking to see the dying swan, Anna Pavlova. No\u00ebl Coward and Ivor Novello were the darlings of the West End, adored both as writers and as actors.<\/p>