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Domenico Cimarosa was a fast and witty writer of Italian opera who cranked out some 65 works in a comparatively short lifetime (he died at 51). The only one that survives is No. 49-a comic opera titled ll Matrimonio Segreto, which pleased Austria's Emperor Leopold II so much at the premiere that he demanded a repeat of the entire score as an encore. Last week Manhattan concertgoers turned out to sample another side of Cimarosa's musical personality. The occasion: the first known public performance of a requiem Mass written by Cimarosa in Russia...
Meneghini CallasX The offering: Cima-rosa's charming // Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage), with such Scala names as Caro Badioli, Eugenia Ratti, Graziella Sciutti and Giulietta Simionato -all first-rate singers but not of world reputation. The opera has been performed scores of times at La Scala (last in 1948), but in the vast house it never came across with such gusto, immediacy or subtlety. The press was as happy as the audience, and only a few backstage complaints about the cramped space kept the accolade from being unanimous...
Yale will sing folk and college songs and a group of English glees and madrigals. The Crimson program includes choruses from Cimarosa's opera, "if Matrimonio Segreto," and a portion of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex." Both groups will jointly sing the finale choruses from "The Beggar's Opera" and the alma maters of each school...
...Yale Glee Club will sing its usual famous numbers folk and college songs at the annual Harvard-Yale concert in Sanders Theate. Harvard will sing choruses from Cimaress's opera, if Matrimonio Segreto, a portion of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and college songs...
Yale's ability to sing college songs is well known; but while Harvard is not famous to its renditions of Segreto or Rex, the Harvard Glee Club is known for its ability to render these renditions in a manner becoming to the world's better choral groups...