Word: librettos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Musicians, all sat up last week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from the stage, during the ovation. The cast, furthermore, was all-British except for the title part, sung and danced by Gota Ljungberg, able Scandinavienne...
...Cocoanuts (Paramount). The libretto of Irving Berlin's four-year-old musical comedy is reproduced without many amendments and with some of the original cast. Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, who have always done well on Broadway, sound like people singing on an old phonograph record with a blunt needle. It is doubtful whether the urbane, uproarious clowning of the four Marx brothers will seem funny in districts rural enough to admire the routine dance-numbers. Best shot: a wheel-ballet from overhead...
Childishly simple in conception, couched in free verse, the libretto wallows in German sentimental-realism. Fog, snow, the hum of the motor, the ships at sea are all personified. The hero sings...
From London last week came word of another new opera in English, the libretto for which has been written by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, the music by Eugene Goossens. Their opera is called Judith and based on the apocryphal legend which has served many a poet and composer before them.* It will be performed at Covent Garden early this summer...
Well, he said, he had been working away for two years. Instead of collaborating again with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay he had gone ahead by himself on a libretto, a fantastic tragedy...