Word: ramuntcho
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...introductions to other people's books; he is a composer to boot. Last week Americans were pricked into awareness of that half-forgotten fact when the enterprising Philadelphia Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 9) put on the world premiere of the first new Deems Taylor opera in eleven years, Ramuntcho...
What the audience heard was an old-fashioned opera of love, misunderstanding and renunciation. Its six scenes, all laid in the Basque country, began in a murky smuggler's hideout, ended within the pale walls of a convent. The hero, a young smuggler and pelota champion (his name, Ramuntcho, is the Basque diminutive for Raymond) is separated from his Gracieuse by the army's call, then lost to her forever through the machinations of the girl's mother, who intercepts all their letters, thus driving the brokenhearted daughter into holy orders. When Ramuntcho returns and exposes...
Boston will probably hear Ramuntcho next winter. Meanwhile Composer Taylor plans to write a fourth opera for the Philadelphia troupe's U.S. tour next season...
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