Word: noiseland
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Back from Noiseland. The final curtain brought an ovation, but some critical murmurs. A good many Venice operagoers, teethed on the romantic stuff of Verdi and Puccini, found Stravinsky's music a bit flat, or too intellectual, for opera. The sets were criticized as second-rate and rather un-English, and the first-night conducting, which was handled by Stravinsky himself, as distinctly not the work of a Toscanini. But the critics agreed that The Rake's Progress was a solid success, one of the outstanding 'musical works of the decade, a model of form and craftsmanship...
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