Identifier: literarydigest60newy (find matches)
Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pass judgment on a Em-opean opera,tho it is reported the auditors were shy of expressing criticalopinion diu-ing the entractes. When we get over the noveltyof a world -premVere—tho this is the second Metropolitan world-premiere of works by Puccini, The Girl of the Golden Westbeing produced here first eight years ago—the consideration ofthe works themselves comes in. From Mr. James G. Hunekerwe derive sprightly impressions, his characterization of thethree short stories in music being a trinity that nJight beviewed as a tonal triptj-ch—scarlet, mauve, and yellow, withcontrasting, pictorial evocations; or as a IjtIc symphony inwhich II Tabarro is the first allegro, with a coda presto; SuorAngeUca, as an adagio . . . ; the third movement, GianniSchicchi, a rollicking madcap scherzo, overflowing with merrydeviltries, not without a touch of Boccaccios humor or a modicumof the wit and character-drawing of MoUere. With aU thesemany-figured tales it cant be denied that the Metropolitan
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FROM THE SCARLET OPERA. This operatic novelty by Puccini pictures Claudio Muzio and GiulioCrimi as Giorgetta and Luigi in a Guignol-shocker. spread almost its whole box of tricks, barring Caruso, out uponthe table. Mr. Huneker goes into details, calling the first TheCloak (II Tabarro) a Grand Guignol-shocker: The story is a variant of the eternal triangle, as old as theGarden of Eden—the snake as corespondent—and wiU be new when om- mother planet ispulverized on the Last Day.This time the erring wife hasfor a husband a dreamy barge-man, and betrays him with oneof the longshoremen. The set-ting is picturesque. On theriver Seine, below the Cite.The apsis of Notre Dame andthe towers are shown in thedistance. A large barge orcanal-boat is moored on the leftbank, probably at the Quai dela Toiu-nelle, as the bridgeis the Pont de la Tournelle.(Farther up the river is Pontde IArchiveque.) Rousta-bouts load the boat on a hotSeptember afternoon. The sun sets in a mellowmist of glory. Automo

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