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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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s comment seems imperativefor the sake of the integrity of this critical record, thoughthey were of very unequal artistic importance. I takethem up in their order: Marouf/ an opera comique in four acts and five scenes,has for the author of its libretto Lucien Nepotv and for itscomposer Henri Rabaud, with whom the lovers of seriousmusic in the Eastern cities of the country made excellentacquaintance a year later when he came to the UnitedStates as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.The performance was conducted by Pierre Monteux, alsoa newcomer, and the cast was as follows: Marouf Giuseppe de Luca The Princess Frances Alda The Sultan Leon Rothier Fatimah Kathleen Howard The Vizier Andreas de Segurola Ali Thomas Chalmers A Pastry Cook Robert Leonhardt The Fellah Angelo Bada Chief Sailor Albert Reiss Two Merchants 4 S*6 t^i ♦ ♦ j Pompiho Malatesta The Cadi Giulio Rossi rr, Tvyr j MaX BlOCh Two Muezzms j Angelo Bada A Donkey Driver Pietro Audisio Sheik-al-Islam Mr. Burgstaller
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Henri RabaudComposer of Marouf THE OPERATIC BARBER OF BAGDAD 399 How many opera stories are there still locked up in theArabian Nights tales? I do not know; I cannot guess.Only Allah (extolled be his name!) knows. The thesaurushas been opened scores of times, hundreds of times, prob-ably, but the uncut gems still lie heaps upon heaps. Therehave been English, French, German, and Italian operaticAladdins, even a Swedish, but they have long ago gone intothe limbo of things forgotten. A Bohemian AH Baba livedonce on the lyric stage and had namesakes who were be-gotten by composers whose names and some of whosemusic have a familiar sound—Bottesini, Cherubini, Lecocq;but our boyhood friend, who had been the friend ofa score of generations before us, has gone with the FortyThieves into the cave of oblivion, whose door will no moreswing open to our Open, sesame! We never sawMarouf till Mr. Gatti presented him to us, and never evenheard of him unless it was he who used to frequent theGerman

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