The standard operas, their plots and their music; . pel tuopiacer ), and including a beautiful pathetic melody for DonJose ( II fior che avevi), close the music of the act. The third act contains two very striking numbers, theterzetto of the card-players in the smugglers haunt ( Mis-chiam! alziam! ), and Michaelas aria ( Io dico no, non sonpaurosa ), the most effective and beautiful number in thewhole work, and the one which shows most clearly the effectof Wagners influence upon the composer. In the finale ofthe act the Toreadors song is again heard as he disappearsin the distance after the qu
The standard operas, their plots and their music; . pel tuopiacer ), and including a beautiful pathetic melody for DonJose ( II fior che avevi), close the music of the act. The third act contains two very striking numbers, theterzetto of the card-players in the smugglers haunt ( Mis-chiam! alziam! ), and Michaelas aria ( Io dico no, non sonpaurosa ), the most effective and beautiful number in thewhole work, and the one which shows most clearly the effectof Wagners influence upon the composer. In the finale ofthe act the Toreadors song is again heard as he disappearsin the distance after the quarrel with Don Jose. The last act is a hurly-burly of the bull-fight, the Toreadorstaking march, the stormy duet between Don Jose and Carmen,and the tragic denouement in which the Carmen motiveis repeated. The color of the whole work is Spanish, andtlie dance tempo is freely used and beautifully worked upwith Bizets ingenious and scholarly instrumentation. Ex-cept in the third act, however, the vocal parts are inferiorto the orchestral 5 ^ s 5 t-l %; y\ *IJ ^ li ^ n $ ?4-) •&• <u c ss r* S ~ o ^l ~ ^^ o .^ u BLECH Versiegelt LEO BLECH is a name well known in Germany, but wasunfamiliar here until the production of his one-act opera Versiegelt/ in New York, January 20, 1912. He wasborn at Annchen, April 21, 1871, and studied with Humper-dinck, one of his first duties being the preparation of the lat-ters Hansel and Gretel for performance. He has had con-siderable success in operatic direction, having been conductorat Aix la Chapelle, Prague, and at the Royal Opera, Berlin,as a confrere of Muck and Edmund von Strauss. He haswritten six operas, all of which have been well received, butthe only one known here is the Versiegelt, or Sealed up,which was first performed at Hamburg in 1908 and, as saidabove, for the first time in this country by the Metropolitantroupe, in New York, January 20, 1912, with Weil, Alten,Gadski, Jadlowski, and Goritz in the leading roles. T
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