More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . rvingwoman Alice Gentle Second Servingwoman Mile. Severina Third Servingwoman Miss Milda Fourth Servingwoman Mme. Walter-Villa Fifth Servingwoman Mme. Duchene I have already made record of the first performance ofthe work in Europe and the facts touching Mr. Hammer-steins acquisition of the right of performance in was written as a spoken play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal,a Viennese dramatist. After Strauss had provided it withmusic a French translati
More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . rvingwoman Alice Gentle Second Servingwoman Mile. Severina Third Servingwoman Miss Milda Fourth Servingwoman Mme. Walter-Villa Fifth Servingwoman Mme. Duchene I have already made record of the first performance ofthe work in Europe and the facts touching Mr. Hammer-steins acquisition of the right of performance in was written as a spoken play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal,a Viennese dramatist. After Strauss had provided it withmusic a French translation was made by M. Gauthier-Villar. There was just such an audience in attendance onthe first American performance as a sensational incidentof the first magnitude might have been expected to sum-mon. It could not have been larger, it could not havebeen more attentive, it could only amaze the observerwho saw it sit for two hours while a tale of horror wasunrolled before it and music dinned into its ears whichlacked nearly every one of the elements supposed to be at- ?tfl H ^Egf Wf »m A j| ^^^M ?p^ * JIM -y ?:?::?? ,:;^M 5. w Wu P4w Ow COLLAPSE OF MME. MAZARIN 119 tractive to the ordinary lovers of the old opera or the mod-ern lyric drama. The audience and the critical observerrecognized one thing in common, which was that the man ofoperatic miracles, oppressed by difficulties greater than hehad ever confronted before, fulfilled a promise which seemedbeyond the possibility of fulfilment. A German work whichhas affrighted the souls of managers and singers of themajority of German opera houses was performed by a com-pany predominantly French, in a style which compelled theadmission that its spirit in general had been grasped, thatthere were few deficiencies in details to deplore, and that inrespect of the principal actor there had been a performancenothing short of marvelous. Little was the surprise of theknowing that Mme. Mazarin had suffered a physical col-lapse after she had acc
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