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The manager was at his Avit's end, till Tottola, the librettist, suggested a prayer for the Israelites before and after the passage of the host through the cleft waters. Rossini instantly seized the idea, and, springing from bed in his night-shirt, wrote the music with almost inconceivable rapidity, before his embarrassed visitors recovered from their surprise.
"The story of Robert le Diable, to be sure, is not devoid of interest, and Holtei has worked it out with great skill in a drama that is very well written and full of strong and pathetic situations; but the French librettist has contrived to extract from it the most ridiculous farrago of nonsense.
There is no spoken dialogue, and the music is continuous from first to last. Cambert's operas were very successful, and in conjunction with his librettist Perrin he received a charter from the King in 1669, giving him the sole right of establishing opera-houses in the kingdom. Quarrels, however, ensued. Cambert and Perrin separated.
'There is beauty in extreme old age; There's a fascination frantic In a ruin that's romantic' Or, at least no one else has said so much for 'that time of life, which another librettist has stigmatized as 'Bare, ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang." "Yes, I know," the poet returned, clinging to the thread of thought on which he had cast himself loose.
After this introductory period the work runs through tenderly contemplative musing to the end, in which, again, the only strings are the four violins, though here they are accompanied by the brass and wood-winds and tympani, the cymbals being gently tapped with drumsticks. The introduction to the third act of the opera is more lyrical, but not so fine. Gleason is again his own librettist.
The librettist now having need of his services for the finale, Daland enters, and the act winds up with a showy trio. No further comment is needed on this act: in structure, like the first, it is only old-fashioned opera. It is in the third act that the inherent weakness of the story for operatic purposes shows with almost disastrous results.
Lorenzo Da Ponte, known above all as Mozart's librettist, and whose youth much resembled that of Casanova, was accused of having eaten ham on Friday and was obliged to flee from Venice in 1777, to escape the punishment of the Tribunal of Blasphemies.
Your record of accomplishment is pathetically weak. And oh, what a fool I've been! I believed. Even after last night, I believed." No, she was not going to cry. Hers was no mood for tears. What said the librettist? "There is beauty in the roaring of the gale, and the tiger when a-lashing of his tail." Such was the beauty of a woman in anger. And nothing to get enthusiastic about, thought Mr.
'Never mind, said Dick. 'Come on now. Back you go and stick it out. The second act of Madam Butterfly was in progress. With the sure touch of high artistry, both composer and librettist had delineated the result of Pinkerton's faithlessness a faithlessness that was obvious to every one but Cho-cho-san, who still believed that her husband would return with the roses. She knew it.
Jean has an ardent disciple in Salome, a young lady whose position in Ethiopian society is not very clearly defined by the librettist, though in the end she turns out to be Hesatoade's long-lost daughter.
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