Word: librettos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then fulfilled his promises. Murders and whatnot were his pastime. On this particular evening, he operates in the livingroom, the garage and the cellar of the Stevens mansion. A detailed report of the activity would sound very much like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that the whole difficulty is finally solved by Van Cleve of Scotland Yard. All is meant to be very funny...
...Enfant et les Sortileges, an opera ballet by Maurice Ravel with a libretto by Mme. Colette, was recently given its premier in Monte Carlo, will be heard in Paris next season and thereafter brought...
...first time in the history of music a full-length opera composed by an American, on a libretto written by an American, was produced in Europe. Fay-Yen-Fah ws the work, Monte Carlo the scene, Composer Joseph Redding, Poet Templeton Crocker (both of California) the Americans. In the Monte Carlo Opera House, which is not large, sat Mrs. Clans A. Spreckels of San Francisco, Lily Langtry, Yvonne-Printemps, the Duke of Connaught, the Count and Countess Vignal, Jean de Reszke, Lady Waterlow, Princess Radziwill and some 400 others. They listened to a score which is modern without eccentricity, melodious...
Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...
...Libretto. Gallurese, a "high-souled outlaw," Maria, a lovely daughter of a poor shepherd, Rivegas, a Spanish renegado, folk dances from the Sardinian, drinking choruses, religious choruses, innocence outraged, bloody murder...