Word: habanera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, two new operas in one performance were given at the Metropolitan Opera House, La Habanera, by Raoul Laparra, and / Compagnacci, by Primo Riccitelli. These represent an important part of Mr. Gatti's novelties for the season...
...Habanera is one of those Spanish operas written by Frenchmen, of which Carmen is the grand type. It represents those characteristic Spanish dance rhythms accompanying a bitter tragedy...
...next week Mr. Monteux has chosen Rachmaninov's long and too familiar symphony, a Habanera of Aubert, and the overture to Smetana's "Bartered Bride": Mme Elizabeth Rethberg will sing arias from Wagner and Beethoven...
...opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...