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Identifier: morechaptersofop00kreh (find matches)
Title: More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923
Subjects: Opera
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Comique. As a promised sequel to Louise and the product of the composer who had been acclaimedby enthusiastic friends as the greatest successor of Gounod,the Parisian public had displayed great interest in it, but thecritics had not been deceived. They declared it to be ob-scure in purpose, undramatic, and much inferior in melodicinvention to its predecessors. It turned out to be all thesethings and more. The natural curiosity of a public whichhad given a large measure of admiration to Louise, thedesperate need of Mr. Gatti to provide a sensation for theseason, the combined popularity of Miss Farrar and Mr.Caruso, all these failed to win for Charpentiers opera whatmight even be dignified by the term succes destime. It wasa failure, dragged its tedious length through five perform-ances, and sank into the pit of oblivion. It was performedunder the direction of Giorgio Polacca, with the followingcast: Julien Enrico Caruso LouiseLa Beaute La Jeune Fille y Geraldine Farrar LAieuleLa Fille
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Enrico CarusoAs Julien Les Filles du Reve et Chimeres GRENVILLE VERNONS CRITICISM 327 LHierophante J Le Paysan V Dinh Gilly Le Mage J La Paysanne Maria Duchene Rosina VandyckLouise CoxVera CurtisMarie MattfeldSophie BraslauMaria DucheneL Lila Robeson Un Casseur de Pierres ) Une Voix de TAbime > Paolo Ananian Un Camarade J VAcolyte Albert Reiss LOfficiant ) Lambert Murphy Une Voix de 1 Abime ) Un Ouvrier Angelo Bada Un Bucheron Pietro Audisio Gar?ons de Cafe \ Vincenzo Reschiglian J Julius Bayer f Louise CoxTrois Fees < Vera Curtis L Rosina Vandyck Concerning its story, Mr. Grenville Vernon, who wrote acriticism on the performance and who made a record of itsfailure, wrote in the Tribune, in my absence from the city,as follows: It is an allegorical series of tableaux depicting the disintegrationof a poets soul, through disappointment, doubt, spiritual pride, andsensuality. Julien is the same poet who figures in Louise, andthe action opens in his room in the Villa Medici, in Rome.

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