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...went on to quote Victor Maurel, famed French baritone, who said that Verdi's Falstaff "screams for English"; Tito Ricordi, Milanese music publisher, who said that English, next to Italian, was the most "singable" of all tongues; Richard Wagner, who said that he wished his works to be given in English in all English-speaking countries...
Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...
Music. Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying?melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy. In the eight years that intervened between Giovanni Gallurese and L'Amore del Tre Re, Montemezzi must have worked hard, critics decided...
...colors of which have not faded but glow with even a more intense laded but glow with even a more intense depth and opulence in their vividness. It has been further stated that of the many musical scores that have come out of Italy since the death of Verdi The Love of Three Kings is one of the most eloquent...
...years since Falstaff was played at the Metropolitan. Verdi wrote it when he was 80 and full of frolic. He had composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without...