Word: bajazzo
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...many-tongued Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is performed. In France Pagliacci becomes Paillasse, in Germany Bajazzo. But Americans, like Englishmen, take their opera neat, and often swallow an entire performance without understanding more than a few words...
...continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in France Götterddmmerung becomes Le Crepuscule des Dieux. In England and the U. S. opera is usually given in its original language. But from time to time British and U. S. producers have interested themselves in the idea of translated opera and have tried out performances, even entire seasons, of opera in English...
Died. Tarzan Bajazzo, who for years had amused London, Paris, Manhattan by faultless table manners and monchalance in smoking cigarets; by suicide, in Berlin. This trained chimpanzee set fire to the straw in his cage...
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