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Word: giocoso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years had dug up such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Very Moonish | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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