Word: librettos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score (the libretto had to be cut for virtuous Manhattan). Der Rosencavalier, with its infectious burlesque, wit and sparkle, stays his best liked opera, perhaps his best to date...
...story is a broad satire on the western melodrama that has flooded the country on the stage and between the covers of novels for a number of year past. It is possible that the name of the play may be changed, but no further alterations are expected in the libretto...
Perry S. Williams, Minneapolis newspaperman, heard the story, dreamed and mulled over it as he typed his' daily stint, embroidered it, made a libretto of it. It was more than a dozen years ago that he finished it and sent it to Tenor Riccardo Martin of the Chicago Opera, more than a dozen years ago that Tenor Martin passed it on to Composer Alberto Bimboni, little man, to write the score...
...length she mentioned music. She was Chicago-bound, to sing for four weeks in a new opera, Judith, with music by Arthur Honegger, the Frenchman, and libretto by the French-Swiss M. Morax. Chicagoans pricked up their ears at this: "Compared with Judith, Salome** is only a nursery rhyme, a lullaby, and the critics had better start sharpening their pencils...
Operas performed or scheduled this summer at Ravinia: Madame Butterfly, Romeo and Juliette, Rigoletto, Faust, Martha, Aida, and The King's Henchman, a new opera (TIME, June 7) by Deems Taylor (score) and Edna St. Vincent Millay (libretto...