Word: scene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Sanders Theatre was filled to its doors last night at the presentation of "Iphigenie auf Tauris," by Mr. Conried's company. The performance went off very smoothly, the stage-setting and costumes being elaborately worked out, and in complete harmony. The same scene, a grove before the temple of Diana, was used for each of the five acts. Gluck's overture to the "Iphigenie in Aulis" was played by the Pierian Sodality. The orchestra, being placed above the stage, produced a very good effect, and played more purely and with finer expression than usual. The audience was very appreciative...
...written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about the time of the early Crusades. The opera is romantic in spirit, with a thrilling plot of many tragic situations and a happy denouement. The action centres around the invasion of Provence by the Saracens, and the music is strikingly characteristic in its use of Oriental...
...scene is laid in Tauris, at the grove of Diana. Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, had sought to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenie, but the goddess Diana, taking pity on her, had carried her off and installed her as a priestess in the temple at Tauris...
...brief sketch of the plot: Don Julio, having fallen in love with Ismenia, goes to a county fair and is followed by the latter and her maid in disguise. While there the girls flirs with Don Julio and his companions, and win their love a second time. A by-scene in the play is afforded by the abduction of Florimel, daughter of the miller, by Count Otrante; later the miller and his son Bustopha succeed in winning the King's favor, Florimel is found at the home of the count, and the two eventtually fall in love and are married...
...Scene: A town in Spain during the Carnival. Time: Early part of 17th Century...