More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . X o < Q < o 3o-oo O o. w h-» w HO « o w .J THE STORY OF THE OPERA 297 rises on the populace assembled in the courtyard appealing to Boristo declare himself Czar. This he at first refuses to do. In thisscene the Gloria (Slava) as sung in the Russian Church isintroduced with fine effect.* The second scene shows us a cell in the Convent of Miracleswhere Brother Pimenn, an aged monk who is recording the annalsof the empire, arouses of the
More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . X o < Q < o 3o-oo O o. w h-» w HO « o w .J THE STORY OF THE OPERA 297 rises on the populace assembled in the courtyard appealing to Boristo declare himself Czar. This he at first refuses to do. In thisscene the Gloria (Slava) as sung in the Russian Church isintroduced with fine effect.* The second scene shows us a cell in the Convent of Miracleswhere Brother Pimenn, an aged monk who is recording the annalsof the empire, arouses of the young novice Gregory,as he relates to him the story of Boriss crime. Strange thoughtsare born in Gregorys mind when he learns that the murderedCzarewitch, had he lived to reign, would have been his own the closing scene of the first act Boris, at last yielding to thepopular demand, appears to participate in an imposing religiousceremonial. He addresses his people before the cathedrals of theAssumption and the Archangels and then, amid great enthusiasm,enters the former to be crowned. The second act plays on the frontier of Poland where two vaga-bonds,
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