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Updated: July 21, 2025
Renovales was gratified to see López de Sosa greeting the most fashionable, highest-priced cocottes and smiling to comic-opera stars with the familiarity of an old friend. That boy had excellent connections, and he regarded this as an indirect honor to his position as a father.
The winning of the Derby gives a new fillip to the monarchy itself. A Victor Hugo in London is a thought a faire rire. A Goethe at the court of Victoria, or directing Drury Lane Theatre, is of a comic-opera incongruity. Our neighbours across the border have a national celebration of Burns' birthday they think as much of him as of the Battle of Bannockburn.
"That's just like 'The Mikado' or 'Pinafore," she exclaimed." I believe you are a comic-opera brigand or a pirate chieftain, after all." "I am a lowly outcast," he smiled. "Well, I've decided to take you into Edelweiss and " "Pardon me, your highness," he said firmly, "That cannot be. I shall not go to Edelweiss." "But I command you "
He could not sing, to be sure, when he graced the "Beggars' Opera," but the audiences took the will for the deed, applauded his gaiety of action, and quickly pardoned his lyric short-comings. We are equally lenient nowadays to many a comic-opera comedian, so called.
His name is David," chanted the boys, as if they were a comic-opera chorus. David laughed outright. "Oh, sing it again, sing it again!" he crowed. "That sounded fine!" The boys stared, then sniffed disdainfully, and cast derisive glances into each other's eyes it appeared that this little sissy tramp boy did not even know enough to discover when he was being laughed at! "David! David!
"Why are the guards here dressed differently?" asked Caesar. "Because this belongs to the Dominions of the Pope." "And what kind of guards are these?" "These are pontifical Swiss guards." "They look comic-opera enough," said Caesar. "My dear man, don't say that. This costume was designed by no one less than Michelangelo." "All right.
"An' you call it a free country! Ees only one free country. Ees one in which man does as she damn please. Like Mexico!" he ended. The women were astounded. They had always thought of Mexico as a land of rough-and-tumble, comic-opera revolutions; a place where one must forever be on the lookout for trouble; where robbers were rife and the days were nothing but a chain of abominations.
Just as Hofmannsthal imitates Hogarth, so Strauss imitates Mozart, affects his style, his turns, his spirit; inserts a syrupy air in the style of Haendel or Méhul in the first act; and jumbles Mozart with modern comic-opera waltzes, Haendel with post-Wagnerian incantations. And like Hofmannsthal's libretto, the score remains a superficial and formless thing.
"London?" "No. Some manager has the idea in his head that there is money to be made in Italy and Germany during the spring and summer. American comic-opera in those countries; can you imagine it? He has an angel, and I suppose money is no object." "This angel, then, has cut out a fine time for his bank account, and he'll never get back to heaven, once he gets tangled up in foreign red-tape.
The two young people roamed the hills together, or took their share in the household duties, and the whole picture seems to breathe forth an air of reality and truth which far removes it from that atmosphere of comic-opera love and passion which seemed to fill the Midi.
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