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...full title of this seldom produced opera, I Puritani di Scozia, is never used any more. That is because Bellini's Italian librettist, Carlo Pepoli, thought Plymouth was in Scotland instead of southern England. The curtain rises to find the Puritans in league with Cromwell in his battle against the Cavaliers loyal to the Stuarts. The Puritan leader, Lord Walton, is even holding prisoner the widow of Charles I, Enrichetta...
...broad or even Shakespearean Scots the witches talked, but operatic Italian. They hailed him as "Macbetto, di Glamis Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Candor Sire! . . . Macbetto, di Scozia Re!". He was Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, King of Scotland-and hero of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi which was last given in Manhattan in 1850. This Mediterranean Macbeth, revived by Mrs. Lytle Hull's New Opera Company (TIME, Oct. 27), made a stirring music drama. Able Fritz Busch conducted...
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