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Revivals include Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier's Louise; Verdi's Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart's Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats...
...Shakespeare affords interesting observation. Most of it is not so 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...
AARON BURR. " He was a man who came into the world to amuse himself." He loved people and people loved him?especially women. A spendthrift?something between a Chesterfield and Falstaff. He lost the presidency of the United States by a hair's breadth, he lost the governorship of New York, he lost, he lost, he lost?finally even the use of his limbs. But he enjoyed it all, because life was his game...
...outcome should but will not be tremendous. Mentality has been brought down to dead level. A baby playing with his toes merely doing psychological sums: a Falstaff plucking at the counterpane is but rearranging psychological squares and triangles; all are equalized by the cataclysmic "How much is 3 Times...