Word: plot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Alcayde is a two-act comic opera of a fairly legitimate order. The book is by George Stephens L. S., and the music by F. E. Barry '97, the authors of last year's play. The librettist has furnished a bright vigorous book. The plot has the merit of being substantial and connected, calling for plenty of lively situations and humorous complications, and giving the characters a wide range of acting, from serio-comic to pure burlesque, without departing from the central interest of the opera. Almost all the songs, dances, and bits of burlesque are closely allied...
...atmosphere is distinctly Spanish. The plot hangs on the ardent love of the young Alcayde for a fair maiden, the ward of the stern and pompous Grand Inquisitor of Seville. The latter dignitary has many schemes of his own which he puts into execution at the expense of the poor Alcayde, but not without involving himself in serious complications. The reckless projects of a wandering gypsy are accountable for a general misunderstanding on the part of all and cause grave difficulties before matters are finally straightened out. Spanish peasants, gypsies and Moors give the action a picturesque surrounding...
...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 Fall," "There is a Flower...
...dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who has a different hero, but he is very similar to Seneca, both in treatment of plot and character. Profiting by the experience of his two classical models, Racine has given us the finest profane tragedy of the French drama...
...plot of the play, the libretto of which was written by R. M. Townsend '96, follows...