Much of the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House was duplicated on Columbia's largest sound stage.
The credits list "story" as the source of the movie, but it was actually an unpublished and unproduced play, "Don't Fall in Love," copyrighted 10 February 1931 by Dorothy Speare & Charles Beahan.
The role of Grace Moore's thickly-accented Italian dresser, Angelina, is played most convincingly by character actress Jessie Ralph who was born and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
This was the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Music Score (for Louis Silvers) as 1934 was the first year that an Oscar for this category was introduced.