Word: gorgeousity
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...That he wanted his will to make a huge splash I cheerfully affirm. How he would have enjoyed the universal amazement! . . . It must have strained him mightily to keep that gorgeous secret...
...been turned into opera, La Cena Delle Beffe by Umberto Giordano, in which form, as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos...
...slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good singing and Vivienne Segal make The Desert Song alluring, but the sands of Broadway do not burn...
Milan heard it first, then Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Rimini, Buenos Aires, Berlin. Last week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great...
...voice carried well, and caught the rhythm of Shaw's lines. He was the understanding gentleman and soldier. He knew the advantage of chocolate creams over cartridges. He had no more illusions than Shaw of the existence of courage, patroitism, faith, hope, and charity. (For the ladies, he looks, gorgeous in the uniform of a Captain...