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Title: Favourite operas from Mozart to Mascagni : their plots, history and music
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert), 1861-1914
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: New York : Thomas Nelson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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878, when Mme.Marie Roze took the part of the heroine. Carmen is a role that exercises a great fascinationover artists. It offers so many opportunities and canbe played (and sung too) in so many different ways.There are four elements in Carmens character: shewas a daughter of the people, she was a reckless flirt,she was full of passion, and she was superstitious.The differences between one Carmen and anotherresolve themselves into a question of the greater orlesser prominence given to one or other of these.One is a greater flirt and more heartless; the otheris more sensual; the third more plebeian. SomeCarmens love Don Jos^ and merely play withEscamillo ; others love Escamillo and regard DonJos^ as a bore. Mme. Rozes assumption emphasisedthe brutal animalism of the gipsy less than thatof Minnie Hauck, but the latter s representationof the character has been followed upon more orless identical lines by many excellent artists, in-cluding Pauline Lucca, Emma Calv4 aud Ze\i6 deLussan. 152
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I yield me prisoner: I have killed her Act IV. Sc. 2 WEBERS DER FREISCHtTTZ* THE COMPOSER Weber and Meyerbeer may be brought near eachother in this book if only because they were fellow-students under that Abbd Vogler who forms thesubject of Browning s fine poem. Meyerbeer becamean inmate of the Abbds house at Darmstadt, andit was then that Weber met his brother-composer,under whose stimulus he wrote several of his earlyworks. Vogler was immensely proud of having hadsuch distinguished pupils. He used to exclaim:**Oh, how sorry I should have been if I had diedbefore I formed these two 1 It is a minor pointworth noting that Weber was warmly received byMeyerbeers parents at their charming mansion inBerlin. Granting the musical faculty, Carl Maria VonWeber, who was born in 1785, had every chanceof becoming a writer for the stage. His father wasa travelling actor, once a man of wealth and goodsocial position, and young Webers interests werebehind the scenes during all his earlier years. Li

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