Stars of the Opera

Stars of the Opera - A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba

A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calve, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba BY MABEL WAGNALLS Author of "Miserere," "Selma, the Soprano," etc. REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION Early in the season of 1898-99 there was a performance of "Traviata" in the Metropolitan Opera-House which might be described as "an occasion of superlatives"including the largest auditorium, the biggest audience, the finest singers. Grand opera in itself is a culmination and combination of the greatest efforts of the greatest minds. There is, in the first place, the plot of the libretto, which in the case of "Traviata" was the masterpiece of Dumas, France's greatest dramatista man who labored all his life as tho achievement required only work, and who yet possessed such mental power as no amount of work could achieve. After Dumas comes the librettist who transposed the story into suitable Italian verse to be set to music. And then we have the work, the inmost thoughts, of Giuseppe Verdi, Italy's greatest living composer. There was a day when each of these sparkling melodies that now delight the whole world was born in the soul of Verdi, and heard by him alone. But he patiently put upon paper every note that his years of study and his gifted soul impelled. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38153
Author: Wagnalls, Mabel
Release Date: Nov 27, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English