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"Opera's going to be the big proposition!" was his art cry. There was no doubt of Jacob Crayford's influence upon him. He was the first person who turned Claude's mind seriously toward opera, and therefore eventually toward a villa in Algeria. Having launched the song with success, Alston Lake naturally wished to hear more of Claude's music. Claude played to him a great deal of it.
The Hungarian nightingale studies there, and only takes her hall practice here in the off season, in Chickering's empty salon. There is a jealous professional mystery in this secrecy. The summer is the opera's off season, just as the winter is the same for the great circus and travelling shows. The hardest work is thus veiled from the public. The impresario is always a wily individual."
First give woman, if you dare, the alphabet, then summon her to her career; and though men, ignorant and prejudiced, may oppose its beginnings, there is no danger but they will at last fling around her conquering footsteps more lavish praises than ever greeted the opera's idol, more perfumed flowers than ever wooed, with intoxicating fragrance, the fairest butterfly of the ball-room.
"I think I'll give it up do something else. Grand opera's bad enough. There were a lot of things about it that I was fighting my distaste for." "I know," said Agnes. "And you'd better fight them hard. They're unworthy of you." "But musical comedy! It's frightful!" "It's an honest way of making a living, and that's more than can be said of of some things.
He briefly dismisses his account of his opera's immense success and bends all his ardour to winning over his father. The agony of his soul quivers in every line. Vienna is alive with gossip. Some say that he and Constanze are already married. He fears to compromise the woman he loves. He hints that if he cannot wed her with his father's blessing he will wed her without it.
I know that the young artist met with no favor at English hands; and I know that because his works were not a lame repetition of Italian music and water, the discerning Londoners voted it worthless. I know, too, that Master Gluck, in his distress, took counsel with the great Handel, and besought him to point out the opera's defects. Then said Handel "
"Oh, all this opera madness is owing to the success of Jacques!" "Of course. I know that. But another Jacques might spring up, I suppose. Henriette wouldn't like that." "Like it!" exclaimed Max Elliot, twisting his thick lips. "She wants a clear field for the next big event. And I must say she deserves it." "Just what I think. Well, you'll come to Algiers and hear how the new opera's getting on?"
"I hate the Town, and all its Ways; Ridotto's, Opera's, and Plays; The Ball, the King, the Mall, the Court; Wherever the Beau-Monde resort.... All Coffee-Houses, and their Praters; All Courts of Justice, and Debaters; All Taverns, and the Sots within 'em; All Bubbles, and the Rogues that skin 'em," and so forth, the natural anti-climax being that he loves nothing but his "Charmer" at Salisbury.
Its magnificent choruses are sung by men, and Germany is the home of the Mannergesang; among the opera's songs are echoes of the Volkslied ditties which seem to have been caught up in the German nurseries or plucked off the lips of the itinerant German balladist; its emotional music is heartfelt, warm, ingenuous, and in form and spirit free from the artificiality of Italian opera as it was in Mozart's day and as it continued to be for a long time thereafter.
Besides the French occupation, two things were recognized as militating against the opera's success: the music was not to the taste of the people, and the work was too long. Repetitions followed on November 21 and 22, but the first verdict was upheld.
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