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...good, and very few pieces rise to the remotest inkling of the grandeurs of the original. Especially is this true of the Shakesperian plays made into operas. Both librettos and music are sad mirrorings. Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, with their scholarly librettos by Boito are the only operatic compositions that ascend within sight of Shakespeare. They are not faithful to the poet in spirit-they sober down his great madness, adding to it a classical and austere elegance of form...
Toscanini is at last putting on at La Scala of Milan Boito Nerone- that opera by the interesting composer of Mefistofele who was at the same time one of the most distinguished poets of Italy and the literary collaborator with Verdi in Otello and Falstaff. For the leading soprano role the conductor has selected Rosa Raisa, dramatic soprano of the Chicago Opera Company. This, of course, is a distinguished honor and one well deserved by the lady of the great ringing voice. Time was when the season's list of singers at La Scala held the elite...
...program of the "Pops" concert this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in Boston follows: 1. March, "El Capitan" Sousa 2. Overture, "Masaniello" Auber 3. Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel 4. Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt 6. Large, (Solo Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ) Handel 7. Children at Play van Westerhout 8. Introduction and Dance of Salome Glazounov 9. Selection, "Mile Modiste" Herbert 10. Intermezzo Act III, "Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari 11. American Patrol Meacham
...matinee, "Carmen," with Marie Roze in the title role, in which she sings and acts delightfully, and is well supported by Mr. Byron as Don Jose, and Mr. Carleton as Escamillo. To-morrow night, "The Bohemian Girl." Next week, the first production in this country, we believe, of Boito's "Mefistofele," of which much has been heard from London. November 22, N. C. Goodwin's Froliques in "Hobbies." Not a seat in the orchestra, and very few seats in the house, remain unsold for Sarah Bernhardt's engagement, - December 6, two weeks...