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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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atures that lend themselves gracefully to an operatic setting, which might even be said to demand an operatic investiture, but which frequently in all that makes it great and glorious in its original form resents despoliation of any kind, had been turned into an attractive musical drama. With its Gallic esprit inseparable from the original text there evaporated so much of its characteristic charm that few of M. Rostands admirers could approve of the transformation; but saving the defects which were to be found chiefly in the musical settings of portions of its comedy it was yet a notable artistic achievement and one which reflected credit upon its authors and the institution which produced it. It offered nothing pointing to the solution of the problem of English or American opera; yet it was calculated, like Mona, to encourage native composers to work, and this encouragement would, I think, have been greater had the opera been revived after a careful revision, the need of which was recognized by its
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Pasquale Amato as the Sheriff in La fanciulla del West A LIST OF THE PERFORMERS 295 authors, instead of being thrown aside at the end of the season despite the multitude of flattering words which were heaped upon it after the first performance. The opera was performed with the parts distributed as follows: Cyrano de Bergerac Pasquale Amato Roxane Frances Alda Duenna Marie Mattfeld Lise Vera Curtis A Flower Girl Louise Cox Mother Superior Florence Mulford Christian Riccardo Martin Bagueneau Albert Reiss De Guiche Putnam Griswold Le Bret William Hinshaw First Musketeer Basil Ruysdael Second Musketeer Marcel Reiner Montfleury) Lambert Murphy J. caoet J A monk Antonio Pini-Corsi Justin Hughes > Paol° Aanian Maurice Sapio Louis Kreidler Boris Godounow owed its first performance in America on March 19, 1913, under the direction of Signor Toscanini, New York, indirectly if not directly, to the success which had been achieved by the work in Paris in a preceding season. From the Parisian cap

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