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Both he and Rocco knew that their joint labour would probably have only one night's display of existence in the Austrian dominions, but they grudged to Lebruno the chief merit of despatching it to the Shades. The villagers are heard approaching. 'My father! cries Michiella, distractedly; 'the hour is near: it will be death to your daughter!
'She is in the darkness: I am in the light. I am a blot upon the light; she is light in the darkness. Montini poured this out with so fine a sentiment that the impatience of the house for sight of its heroine was quieted. But Irma and Lebruno came forward barely under tolerance. 'We might as well be thumping a tambourine, said Lebruno, during a caress. Irma bit her underlip with mortification.
He turns broadly and receives the chorus of countrymen in paternal fashion an admirably acted bit of grave burlesque. By this time the German portion of the audience had, by one or other of the senses, dimly divined that the opera was a shadow of something concealed thanks to the buffo-basso Lebruno.
Both he and Rocco knew that their joint labour would probably have only one night's display of existence in the Austrian dominions, but they grudged to Lebruno the chief merit of despatching it to the Shades. The villagers are heard approaching. 'My father! cries Michiella, distractedly; 'the hour is near: it will be death to your daughter!
The first act, after scenes between false Camillo and Michiella, ends with the marriage of Camillo and Camilla; a quatuor composed of Montini, Vittoria, Irma, and Lebruno. Michiella is in despair; Count Orso is profoundly sonorous with paternity and devotion to the law. He has restored to Camilla a portion of her mother's sequestrated estates.
'Then, the more must I respect it, Count Orso replies. The audience gave Austria credit for that much in a short murmur. Michiella's aside, 'Till anger seizes him I wait! created laughter; it came in contrast with an extraordinary pomposity of self-satisfaction exhibited by Count Orso the flower-faced, tun-bellied basso, Lebruno. It was irresistible. He stood swollen out like a morning cock.
'Then, the more must I respect it, Count Orso replies. The audience gave Austria credit for that much in a short murmur. Michiella's aside, 'Till anger seizes him I wait! created laughter; it came in contrast with an extraordinary pomposity of self-satisfaction exhibited by Count Orso the flower-faced, tun-bellied basso, Lebruno. It was irresistible. He stood swollen out like a morning cock.
He turns broadly and receives the chorus of countrymen in paternal fashion an admirably acted bit of grave burlesque. By this time the German portion of the audience had, by one or other of the senses, dimly divined that the opera was a shadow of something concealed thanks to the buffo-basso Lebruno.
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