The standard operas, their plots and their music; . any strong passages and much beautifulwriting. The favorite numbers are the waltz arietta, verymuch in the manner of the well-known II Bacio, at theCapulet festival, the Queen Mab song, by Mercutio ( Mab,Regina di Menzogne ), and the duet between Romeo andJuliet ( Di Grazia, t arrestaanc or! ), in the first act; thelove music in the balcony scene of the second act, which in-evitably recalls the garden music in Faust ; an impressivesolo for Friar Laurence (Al vostro Amor cocente ), fol-lowed by a vigorous trio and quartet, the music of which i
The standard operas, their plots and their music; . any strong passages and much beautifulwriting. The favorite numbers are the waltz arietta, verymuch in the manner of the well-known II Bacio, at theCapulet festival, the Queen Mab song, by Mercutio ( Mab,Regina di Menzogne ), and the duet between Romeo andJuliet ( Di Grazia, t arrestaanc or! ), in the first act; thelove music in the balcony scene of the second act, which in-evitably recalls the garden music in Faust ; an impressivesolo for Friar Laurence (Al vostro Amor cocente ), fol-lowed by a vigorous trio and quartet, the music of which ismassive and ecclesiastical in character, and the pages song(Ah! col nibbio Micidale ), in the third act; the duet ofparting between Romeo and Juliet ( Tu dei partir ohime! ),the quartet ( Non temero mio ben) between Juliet, thenurse. Friar Laurence, and Capulet, and the dramatic solofor the Friar ( Bevi allor questo Filtro ), as he gives thepotion to Juliet, in the fourth act; and the elaborate orchestralprelude to the tomb scene in the last Geraldine Farrar as Juliet HAL:feVY (JACQUES FRANCOIS) The Jewess T A Juive, grand opera in five acts, words by Scribe,1 ^ the libretto originally written for Rossini and rejectedin favor of William Tell, was produced for the first timeat the Academic, Paris, February 23, 1835, with the followingcast of the principal parts: Rachel Mile. Cornelia Falcon. Eudoxia Mme. Dorus-Gras. Eleazar M. Nourrit. Cardinal . M. Levasseur. It was first produced in England in French, July 29, 1846,and in Italian under the title of La Ebrea, July 25, this country it is most familiar in the German scene of the opera is laid in Constance; time, , a prince of the empire, returning from the wars, isenamoured of Rachel, a beautiful Jewess, daughter of Eleazar,the goldsmith. The better to carry out his plans, he callshimself Samuel, and pretends to be a Jewish painter. Cir-cumstances, however, dispel the illusion, and Rachel le
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