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I say, now," she continued, taking the manager into a corner, "you want to make me take the leading part in the ballet in Ariane, you Turk. You are going to be married, and you know how I can make you miserable " "Heloise, my heart is copper-bottomed like a man-of-war." "I shall bring your children on the scene! I will borrow some somewhere." "I have owned up about the attachment."
The lady Ariane, deserted by her former lover, had looked kindly upon him; was ready to make him son-in-law to the old count her father, old and not long for this world.
The lady Ariane, deserted by her former lover, had looked kindly upon him; was ready to make him son-in-law to the old count her father, old and not long for this world.
It might possibly be so for Parsifal. Of all operas since Parsifal that I have seen, the Ariane et Barbe Bleue of Dukas and Maeterlinck seems to me the most beautiful, the most exalted in conception, the most finely symbolic, and surely of all modern operas it is that in which the ideas and the words, the music, the stage pictures, are wrought with finest artistry into one harmonious whole.
Ariane ma soeur, de quel amour blessée, Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée. Here, certainly, are no 'mots rares'; here is nothing to catch the mind or dazzle the understanding; here is only the most ordinary vocabulary, plainly set forth. But is there not an enchantment? Is there not a vision?
The old count of Chastellux was lately dead, and the heir had announced his coming, according to custom, to claim his ecclesiastical privilege. There had been long feud between the houses of Chastellux and Auxerre; but on this happy occasion an offer of peace came with a proposal for the hand of the Lady Ariane.
The old count of Chastellux was lately dead, and the heir had announced his coming, according to custom, to claim his ecclesiastical privilege. There had been long feud between the houses of Chastellux and Auxerre; but on this happy occasion an offer of peace came with a proposal for the hand of the Lady Ariane.
"I vow and protest they're the handsomest couple in the room!" Methuselah's grandchildren are rather jealous and angry, and Mademoiselle Ariane, of the French theatre, is furious. But there's no accounting for the mercenary envy of some people; and it is impossible to satisfy everybody. Those three young men are described in a twinkling: Captain Grig of the Heavies; Mr.
"It is of an insipidity to make one sick." "And what absence of grace, gallantry, and the belle flamme!" said Scudery, coldly. "Ah, how different from our immortal D'Urfe!" said Baro, the continuator. "Where is the 'Ariane, where the 'Astrea?" cried, with a groan, Godeau, the annotator.
Charles Marie Widor has recently in 'Les Pêcheurs de Saint Jean' given a worthy success to his twenty-year-old 'Maître Ambros. Navier Leroux, a pupil of Massenet, has carried on his master's traditions, somewhat Wagnerised and generally speaking brought up to date, in 'Astarté' , 'La Reine Fiammette' , 'William Ratcliff' , and 'Théodora' . Remarkable promise has been shown by Paul Dukas in 'Ariane et Barbe-Bleue' ; by Camille d'Erlanger in 'Le Fils de l'Étoile' and 'Aphrodite' ; by Georges Marty in 'Daria' ; by Georges Hüe in 'Titania' , and by Gabriel Dupont in 'La Cabrera , while a characteristic note of tender sentiment was struck by Reynaldo Hahn in 'La Carmélite' .
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