Word: denouement
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...beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about the time of the early Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement. The action centres around the invasion of Provence by the Saracens, and the music is strikingly 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...
...readable and amusing material. The number opens with a poem by Asst. Professor Santayana entitled "King's College Chapel-an Elegy," which shows a fine mastery of the Elegiac style. The comedy by B. W. '75, which was begun in the February number, is concluded, ending in an amusing denouement. An editorial on Professor Norton's resignation, by one of the sub-editors, is commendable in sentiment though rather luxuriant in expression. The number ends with a brace of young book reviews...
...improvement over last year's performance. The plot is good, but it is worked out in the conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...final denouement, the fierce Abu Abdela, at the point of the sword, makes the Grand Inquisitor take Kazooka for his bride, much to the stately official's chagrin, while Gitana and her mother lead off poor Carlos by the ears. The ending, like that of all comic operas, is, of course, most happy, and Don Manuel, the virtuous Alcayde finally wins the hand of the orphan maid, Farina...
...their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable explanations easy and natural...