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This made it twenty minutes past twelve, and, as all were present, Major French, the Commissioner of Public Buildings, gave a signal, and the Marine Band performed, with impressive effect, the Miserere, from the opera "Il Trovatore." The Chaplain of the House, Rev. Dr. Boynton, made a most orthodox and righteous introductory prayer, after with Hon.
And having seen to his guest's needs, and placed spirits and cigars and an ash-tray within his reach, the Padre sat himself comfortably in his chair to hear and expose the false doctrine of Il Trovatore. By midnight all of the opera that Gaston could recall had been played and sung twice. The convert sat in his chair no longer, but stood singing by the piano.
With a sigh, Bobby, out of his ignorance and independence, took the only possible course to preserve peace, and emphatically told Signor Ricardo to pack up and go as quickly as possible, which he went away vowing to do. Naturally the great tenor thought better of it after that, and though he had already been dropped from the cast of Il Trovatore on Saturday afternoon, he reported just the same.
The act closes with a long duet between Violetta and Alfred, developing in the finale, by the entrance of Germont, to a very strong and dramatic trio. The third act opens in Violetta's chamber with a reminiscence of the introduction. In the next scene occurs the passionate duet with Alfred, "Parigi, o cara," which is a close copy of the final duet in "Trovatore" between Manrico and Azucena.
When the conversation languished, he prudently sought again at the piano the phrases of the graceful and banal Sicilian air, fearing to slip into an air of Trovatore, which was written in the same manner. Vivian Bell questioned the monsters she had created, and complained of their absurd replies.
"My name is Gaston Villere, and it was time I should be reminded of my manners." The Padre's hand waved a polite negative. "Indeed, yes, Padre. But your music has amazed me. If you carried such associations as Ah! the days and the nights!" he broke off. "To come down a California mountain and find Paris at the bottom! The Huguenots, Rossini, Herold I was waiting for Il Trovatore."
There was Chananay dressed as Leonor in Il Trovatore, talking in the language of the markets to Ratia in the costume of a schoolmaster; Yeyeng, wrapped in a silk shawl, was clinging to the Prince Villardo; while Balbino and the Moros were exerting themselves to console the more or less injured musicians. Several Spaniards went from group to group haranguing every one they met.
Only with his sixteenth opera did Verdi win the supremacy when there were no longer any living competitors; and "Rigoletto" , "Il Trovatore," and "La Traviata" must be called the best, as they are the last of the Italian opera school.
Well, you played that piece from the Trovatore capitally. The gentlemen here would like to hear something else er I should, too. Know any other airs?" "A few, sir." "Mind playing?" "Not to so appreciative an audience," came to the lad's lips; but he only said, "Oh, no, sir." "Go on, then. Here, Johnson, give the musician a glass of wine.
I had always admired the composer of "Rigoletto," "Il Trovatore," and "Traviata," and I loved and revered the author of "Aida," "Otello," and "Falstaff."
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