Word: seraglio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Opera Comany will present Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. Two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" will be the performance of the American Opera Company at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. It is a comdy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song, in which two lovers and the Sultan are the romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element...
...includes seven operas beginning with Gounod's "Faust" on Monday evening; "Madame Butterfly" will be given Tuesday evening; "Martha" on Wednesday afternoon; Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "Pagliacci" on Thursday evening and in addition an original program by Michio Ito, Japanese, dancer; Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" Friday evening; "Faust' Saturday afternoon; "Carmen" Saturday evening. The second week will open with "Martha" on Monday evening; "Pagliacci" Tuesday evening with another Ito dance program; "Faust" Wednesday afternoon;. "The Marriage of Figaro" Wednesday evening; "The Abduction from the Seraglio" Thursday evening: "Faust" Friday evening, which has been designated...
Among the most novel of these operas is Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio", a comedy with a romantic background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA...
Testimony. Said Captain Wright: "The late Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone was a gross sensualist. ... At a meeting of the Supreme War Council Lord Milner said of Mr. Gladstone that his policies were governed by 'his seraglio'. . . . Lord Morley once told me that Lord Granville told him he had known five of Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers who had committed adultery. I am sure that Mr. Gladstone must have been one of these.* . . . The actress Lillie Langtry, 'The Jersey Lily,' was well-known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist...