Word: maritana
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This week's attraction is Vincent Wallace's opera "Maritana." The opera is a brilliant one, and as much of a credit to the theatre as anything given there...
AFTER two weeks of a most entertaining series of performances of "Lucia di Lammermoor," the Castle Square Lyric Company takes up Vincent Wallace's "Maritana," considered by many music lovers the best of the lighter operas. Its music is extremely graceful andpleasing and is full of fun, romance and pathos with little tragedy. The plot involves an amorous king, a crafty minister, a soldier of fortune, a country girl (the beloved of the king), soldiers, nobles, common people and gypsies. Its best songs are "Angels that Around Us Hover" "Of Fairy Wand I the Power," "Let Me Like a Soldier...