Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...
YOU may as well devote at least part of your summer to the study of English, for it appears that there will be not less than three associations presenting opera in that language in town next season.
In continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in ...
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ALONG with words, new scenery, new English and other novelties in the Metropolitan’s revival of “The Magic Flute,” there also seemed to be a new audience. At least, there were many visitors who ...