Word: primi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief virtue of the production is a cast of exceptionally high-quality voices which is agreeably suited to comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
Nunc ad vos tanseo qui principales partes Cecropio coturno agitis, ex quibus primi cum primis estis nominandi: tu, o Dorothea blandissima, et tu, o Ripa Pulchra (ab his conturaits puellis caute cave, o sagax KerbyMolitor!), nec non tu, o Michael purior quam sapientior, ct tu, o Sullivane frustra infernis ab tenebris resurrecte, et tu, o T. noster Hilaris, adulescens animac plene, Et chorum doctissimum et sobrium, ardium saplentiae fontem liquidae, et famulos fideles totis laudibus ad caclum extollimus. Quibus ombibus "florcatis gloria" dicunt Seneca Altonque Peters; nobis tamen "sacer est ignis (credite lacsis) nimiumque potens...
Nunc ad illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin...