Word: rigoletto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amore dei Tre Re" is a curious mixture of old and new tendencies, and represents perhaps the middle ground between an opera like "Rigoletto" and one which may be written twenty years from now. The music is entirely modern, melodically and harmonically, and modern the orchestration; and then, in contrast, one finds a story which, with its antique romanticism, would have recommended itself to Verdi. The time is the middle ages, and the story, quickly told, involves a wife who has been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt...
Opera House.--The San Carlo Company gives "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Hoffmann", "Tosca", "Butterfly", "Faust", "Gioconda", and "Carmen" beginning next Monday...
...Barnum Was Right", 1921, A. Steinert b. "The Voodoo Dance" from "Wetward Ho" 1921, A. Steinert 7. Bacchanale (Der Venusberg) Act 1, "Tannhauser" Wagner 8. Harvard Glee Club: Love Songs Brahms Chorus of Bacchantes from "Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Cavalier Song Stanford (Dr. Archibald T. Davison, Conductor.) 9. Fantasia, "Rigoletto" Verdi 10. Invitation to the Dance, Weber-Berlioz 11. Cruiser Harvard Strube
Maud Muller and her orchestra in "A Tuneful, Topical Revue" offer some effective bits of jazz music, concluding with a Chinese burlesque of "The Sun Daughter" in similar saxophone harmony. Charles and Henry Rigoletto assisted by the Swanson sisters, met with much applause in "Around the World,' an act which is as original as it is full of action. Among the other entertainers, Jack McLallen and May Carson do some clever work on roller skates, Frank J. Conroy appears in a blackface absurdity entitled "Spirits of 1920," while Stella Tracey and Carl McBride are seen in a singing and dancing...