Word: beanstalk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series of native U. S. operas, it will be presented by students of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, of which Author Erskine is president...
With a sack inside his vest, wily jack-the-giant-killer climbed the beanstalk and banqueted competitively with the Giant. While giant ate, Jack stuffed sack instead of stomach. Then, with a sword, he disgorged the sack's contents. Not to be outdone, the giant ripped himself open, died...