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Updated: May 13, 2025
In "La Traviata" he says Verdi discovered a third manner, resembling in some things the style of French oeera comique. "This style of music," he says, "although it has not been tried on the stage in Italy, is, however, not unknown in private circles. In these latter years we have seen Luigi Gordigiani and Fabio Campana making themselves known principally in this style of music, called da camera.
They find gold in San Francisco, but they don't understand gilding. N N. existed three years in this place. He became bald on the top of his head, as all Parisians do. Look down from your box at the Opera Comique, mademoiselle, and count the bald crowns of the fast young men in the pit. Ah you tremble! They show where the arrows of love have struck and glanced off.
"Then tell me, who is she just passing?" "The one whose clothing is so so as if she would pose for the " "Hush, Julie. The one in white and gold." "I asked if it were she. Yes, I know her very well, for I saw a gentleman unmask her on the balcony above there, to kiss her. It is she who dances so wonderfully at the Opéra Comique. You have seen her, Mademoiselle Fée. Ah, come. Let us dance.
In those war-days Capoul sang the "Marseillaise" either at the Opera Comique or the Theatre Lyrique; but at the Opera it was sung by Marie Sass, then at the height of her reputation.
An Italian Opera Comique was then amusing the Court, with the exception of the king, who had no taste for music. His majesty bore a considerable resemblance to a sheep in the face, and it seemed as if the likeness went deeper, for sheep have not the slightest idea of sound. His favourite pursuit was sport, and the reason will be given later on.
"I know; heard all the great voices for twenty years; a violin in the Opera Comique. Once I led the finale of Hamlet. I saw the Director stop.... He handed me the baton. He died soon after, and that was the beginning of my bad luck. I should have been Director; but I was ignored, and came to America Buenos Aires; then Washington, and and morphia."
The Archbishop was very charitable, and liberal to excess, but he often granted pensions without discernment. Madame la Caille, who acted the Duennas at the Opera Comique, was recommended to him as the mother of a family, who deserved his protection, The worthy prelate asked what he could do for her.
6. de la Porte St. Martin. 8. du Vaudeville, Rue de Chartres. 9. Montansier, Palais du Tribunat. 10. de l'Ambigu Comique, Boulevard du Temple. 11. de la Gaiete, Boulevard du Temple. 12. des Jeunes Artistes, Boulevard St. Martin. 13. des Jeunes Eleves, Rue de Thionville. 14. des Delassemens Comiques, Boulevard du Temple. 15. sans Pretension, Boulevard du Temple.
However, the curious simplicity of the piece, the rustic scenes and personages, here faithfully copied from reality, unlike the conventional village and villager of opera comique, and the pleasing sentiment that runs through the tale, were found refreshing by audiences upon whom the sensational incidents and harrowing emotions of their modern drama were already beginning to pall.
This wonderful and popular opera was written in French, to a libretto sent to Berlin by Scribe, and was at first intended for the Opéra Comique, but its three acts were subsequently increased to five, and its destination changed to the Grand Opéra.
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