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Title: The standard operas, their plots and their music;
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Upton, George P. (George Putnam), 1834-1919
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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is reflecting upon theevents of his unsatisfactory life, and contemplating a happierexistence in heaven. Mephistopheles is still by his side as thetempter, offers him his cloak, and urges him to fly again.The heavenly trumpets which rang through the prologue areagain heard, and the celestial choirs are singing. Enraged,Mephistopheles summons the sirens, who lure Faust with alltheir charms. Faust seizes the Sacred Volume, and declaresthat he relies upon its word for salvation. He prays for helpagainst the demon. His prayer is answered; and as he diesa shower of roses falls upon his body. The tempter dis-appears, and the finale of the prologue, repeated, announcesFaust has died in salvation. The opera as a whole is episodical in its dramatic construc-tion, and the music is a mixture of two styles, — the Wagnerianand the conventional Italian; but its orchestration is boldand independent in character, and the voice-parts are verystriking in their adaptation to the dramatic requirements.
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Marie Roze as Helen BRETON (TOMAS) La Dolores THE fame of Tomas Breton^ the most eminent of livingSpanish composers^ rests principally upon his lyricdramas, the only one of whicli known in this country is LaDolores/ first produced in Madrid in 1895, and in this countryin 1909. The libretto was written by the composer himself, and theopera is divided into three acts, the scene being laid in Aragon,and the time the present. Its atmosphere is Spanish through-out, as will be seen by the story and the dramatis personce,which include Dolores, the heroine; Gaspara, an innkeeper;Lazaro, her son; Celemino, the tenor; Melchior, a barber;Patrizio, baritone; Rojas, a sergeant; and the muleteer, asecond tenor. The first act opens in the market-place of Calatayud wherePatrizio and Celemino are seated at a table before Gasparasinn, discoursing of Dolores, whom Patrizio wishes to marry.A troop of soldiers enter, headed by Rojas, who is also inlove with Dolores, but the latter as she brings wine flout

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