Word: massenet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan, Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore was given its first showing one evening last week. As a stage spectacle, it was ultra-magnificent. Boris Anisfeld, most vigorous of modern Russian 'decorative artists, given a free hand with Eastern temple scenes and Oriental Gardens of Paradise, had splashed his paint regardless. The story, too, had its points as melodrama. Alim (King of Lahore), Scindia (Prime Minister), Timur (High Priest), the god Indra, rajahs, priests, fakirs, soldiers, dancers, bayaderes, slaves, musicians united in scenes of love and war to produce a scheme of action, ending gloriously in two suicides...
...With Miss Garden Saturday Matinee--Boris Godunow Moussorgsky With Mr. Chaliapin Saturday Evening--Faust Gounod The Second Week Monday--Mefistofele Boito With Mr. Chaliapin Tuesday--Snow-Maiden Rimsky-Korsakow Wednesday Matinee--Traviata Verdi Wednesday Evening--Carmen Bizet With Miss Garden Thursday--Boris Godonow Moussorgsky With Mr. Chaliapin Friday--Manon Massenet Saturday Matinee--Le Jongleur de Notre Dame Massenet and 'II Maestro di Capella Paer Saturday Evening--Otello Verdi
Thais. Mme. Jeritza opens the Metropolitan opera season Monday, Nov. 5, in Thais (Massenet). Aida (Verdi) will be given on Wednesday; La Tosca (Puccini) on Thursday; Die Meistersinger (Wagner) on Friday; Romeo et Juliette (Gounod) on Saturday afternoon, and Rigoletto (Verdi) on Saturday night...
This and L'Africaine are the season's novelties. Mary Garden will also revive Massenet's Cleopatre. One opera in English, Theodore Stearns' Snow Bird, is included in the general repertoire, which is predominantly French and Italian...
...program of the "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall follows: 1. Prologue to "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo 2. Waltz, "Dream of Love" Fahrbach 3. "Devotion" Herbert 4. Fantasia, "Manon" Massenet 5. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 6. Berceuse Johns 7. Overture to "The Bat" Strauss 8. Bentley School Songs 9. American Military Fantasy Rollinson 10. Waltz, "Spanish Serenade" Metra 11. Slavonic Dance, No. 7 Dvorak