The standard operas, their plots and their music; . act, LAbbandono, and its second part afterthe passage of the funeral procession La Tregenda, ac-companying the dances of the Wilis. Streatfeild, analyzingthe work of Puccini, says: The music is the work of a manof imagination. It is thoroughly Italian in character and thereis little attempt at local color. In the supernatural part thecomposer is completely successful. His Wilis have a characterof their own, entirely distinct from that of other operaticspectres. There is a fiendish rapture in their gambols whichPuccini has been very happy in c
The standard operas, their plots and their music; . act, LAbbandono, and its second part afterthe passage of the funeral procession La Tregenda, ac-companying the dances of the Wilis. Streatfeild, analyzingthe work of Puccini, says: The music is the work of a manof imagination. It is thoroughly Italian in character and thereis little attempt at local color. In the supernatural part thecomposer is completely successful. His Wilis have a characterof their own, entirely distinct from that of other operaticspectres. There is a fiendish rapture in their gambols whichPuccini has been very happy in conveying. The Girl of the Golden West La Fanciulla del West ( The Girl of the Golden West ),an opera in three acts, music by Giacomo Puccini, text byC. Zangarini and C. Civinini, was first produced upon anystage, by the Metropolitan Opera Troupe, in New York, De-cember 10, 1910, with the following cast: Minwie Emmt Destinn. Johnson Enrico Caruso. Jake Ranee Pasquale Amato. Nick Albert Reiss. Aahby Adamo Didur. Sonora Dinh Gilly. Trin Angelo Caroline White as The Girl Copyright, Matzeiie PUCCINI 239 Sid GiuLio Rossi. Bella VincenzoReschiglian. Harry Pietbo Audisio. Joe Glenn Hall. Happy Antonio Pini-Corsi. Larkens Menotti Fbascona. Billy Georges Boubqeois. Wowkle Marie Mattfeld. Jake Wallace Andrea de Segurola. Jose Castro EpoARDO Missiano. The text of the opera is founded upon the drama of thesame name by David Belasco, a performance of which Pucciniwitnessed during a visit to New York for the purpose ofassisting in the initial performance of his opera MadameButterfly. The play greatly attracted him and gave him theidea of setting it in operatic form. It follows the originalstory quite closely, a few changes only having been made inthe first and last acts for scenic and musical effect. The first act opens with a characteristic scene in the Polkasaloon among the California mountains. While the miners areplaying cards and drinking, the minstrel of the camp sings ahome song
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