Word: donning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The plot is of a rather more substantial character than that of most light operas. Don Manuel, the young and handsome Alcayde of Seville, is desperately in love with Farina, an orphan maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary...
AFTER two weeks of a most entertaining series of performances of "Lucia di Lammermoor," the Castle Square Lyric Company takes up Vincent Wallace's "Maritana," considered by many music lovers the best of the lighter operas. Its music is extremely graceful andpleasing and is full of fun, romance and pathos...
The Drama of Don Jose Echegaray, Enrique A. Zanetti.
We all feel the greatest respect for those who have done their duty, who have gamely fought an up-hill fight, and though defeated, left no stone unturned by which they could ensure success. Then if we are defeated, don't explain, don't excuse it, but bear it like...
Mr. Copeland spoke very briefly last evening on Keats' life and poetical work. He took up especially three points: first, the statement so often made, with Shelley for authority, that Keats was "a Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by...