Word: comical
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Society will present for its theatricals this year a three-act comic opera, "The Viking." The book is by T. Stensland 3L., and the music by J. A. Loud '98. This is the first three-act opera that the Society has ever presented...
...characteristic in its use of Oriental color, while the dramatic portions are of great vigor and intensity. The style may be said to be Professor Paine's own, for it is neither like that of the modern French opera with its somewhat lighter mixture of the serious and the comic, nor like that of Wagner with its long monologues and extreme use of leading motives. The subject of the opera is not mythical, but one of human interest, and it makes an instant appeal to the enthusiasm and emotion of the hearer. All musicians who have made a study...
...Pudding play for this year is a two act comic opera called "Wytche Hazelle." The music is by H. Tappin '00, and the book is by E. L. Dudley '00 and J. H. Holliday '00. The scenery and costumes have been designed by T. M. Shaw '00. The parts have been temporarily assigned as follows: Milde Cavendishe, ye heade manne of Salem, W. S. McCornick '00. Charitie, hys bouncinge sistere, E.L. Dudley. '00. Symone, hys sonne, R. S. Holland '00. Sir Richard Cranfurde, Jacobite exile, C. N. Prouty. '00. Ladye Hazelle Fairelace, Jacobite exile, R. F. Bolles'00. Ninon, Hazelle...