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...Maeterlinck's understatements, Debussy gave a sheeny, translucent orchestral background, a tonal tapestry winding on & on with never a big aria or ensemble piece for the singers. The love avowal of Pelleas & Mélisande ("I love you." "I love you, too.") is sung to a magnificent orchestral silence. The opera therefore demands and gets reverent handling from singers who can look and act poetic on the stage. The first Mélisande, in 1902, was Mary Garden, who was given the role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck...
...James retired into the wings to put the finishing touches on the aria which he sang to the United Press last night. "We are a very small group of people who are not anti-Catholic," James protests, adding that he opposes only "political priestcraft". Hitler and Coughlin have used the same trick: "We don't hate all Jews, only scheming, Communist Jews." Again, James admits, "We do wear red shirts as a picturesque touch." Picturesque fellow Hitler...
...first group contains works by Bach, Mozart, and Handel. The Mozart song, an aria from La Clemeza de Tito, will be done with a clarinet obligato. The middle groups consists of the Schumann song-cycle. Frauenlibe und Leben. A group of modern French songs will complete the program...
Last week, Seltsam issued to the public his first de Reszke discs: a part of the Forge Song from Wagner's Siegfried, a snatch of the aria O Paradiso from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine. Both records sounded as if Tenor de Reszke were singing under water during a hurricane. Nevertheless, Seltsam's fellow antiquarians strained their ears reverently at every foggy syllable...
...masterminds have been prophesying a speedy decline for the sentimental operas of the late Giacomo Puccini. Sensible critics,*however, have often pointed out that, though they may be bathetic, Puccini's operas are masterpieces of musical stagecraft, shaped by one of the surest hands that ever penned an aria. Meanwhile Tosca, La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly have been played incessantly wherever opera is given. During his lifetime, Composer Puccini made a fortune from them-a rare feat for a composer of serious music-and today they are still tops on the list of operatic bestsellers...