Word: fah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franciscans decided that they would become the first U. S. composer and librettist to have an opera which was their joint work produced in Europe. They were aided by "Doc" Leahy, of the old San Francisco Tivoli, in their eventually successful efforts to have their opera, Fay-Yen-Fah, produced by the Monte Carlo Casino Opera Company. Last week these two young men were "showered with real orchids" as their opera had its U. S. premiere in San Francisco...
...Fah again justified the comment of a Monte Carlo croupier: "Man dieu! One can understand why the Americans do not love opera, if theirs are all like this!" But the "poppy ballet," and the "lily ballet," and the "melodies which flow along easily and attach themselves to the memory with pleasurable effects," were all applauded with "real hand-stinging claps...
...first time in the history of music a full-length opera composed by an American, on a libretto written by an American, was produced in Europe. Fay-Yen-Fah ws the work, Monte Carlo the scene, Composer Joseph Redding, Poet Templeton Crocker (both of California) the Americans. In the Monte Carlo Opera House, which is not large, sat Mrs. Clans A. Spreckels of San Francisco, Lily Langtry, Yvonne-Printemps, the Duke of Connaught, the Count and Countess Vignal, Jean de Reszke, Lady Waterlow, Princess Radziwill and some 400 others. They listened to a score which is modern without eccentricity, melodious...