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...composers, Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, 1858. His father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather had all composed music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni...
Died. Giacomo Puccini, 66, composer of La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut; in Brussels, Belgium, of heart disease. (See Page...
...second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
...stage, and having sentimentality to spare. The validity of purification through love is undisputed . . . in the theatre. And Marguerite Gautier is so regenerated, though even the strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written in youth, written at white heat, and without the customary Dumas-fils thesis or moral...
...most ambitious piece of verse is "Poet and Philistine." This is so long and circumstantial that one is tempted, forgetting the point, to look on it merely as an enumeration of fair women, and to exclaim "Yes, but you have forgotten Anne Hathaway and Manon Lescaut!" Among the other pieces of verse, the "Tempest" is worth mentioning...