Word: boccaccio
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...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...
...Someone must have been kidding Authoress Celarié if she tells this as a true story, else some Marocaine, a devotee of Boccaccio, called on her knowledge of his works to pull herself out of a nasty...
...tunes which accompanied these goings-on were pleasant but not particularly distinguished. Composer Franz von Suppe (Poet and Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such...
Operas new to the list are Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson (TIME, July 28), Felice Lattuada's Preziose Ridicole, Moussorgsky's unfinished Fair at Sorotchinsk, Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Mascagni's Iris, Rossini's William Tell and Verdi's La Forza del Destino will be revived...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...