More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . atures thatlend themselves gracefully to an operatic setting, whichmight even be said to demand an operatic investiture, butwhich frequently in all that makes it great and glorious in itsoriginal form resents despoliation of any kind, had beenturned into an attractive musical drama. With its Gallicesprit inseparable from the original text there evaporated somuch of its characteristic charm that few of M. Rostandsadmirers could approve of the transformation;
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More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . atures thatlend themselves gracefully to an operatic setting, whichmight even be said to demand an operatic investiture, butwhich frequently in all that makes it great and glorious in itsoriginal form resents despoliation of any kind, had beenturned into an attractive musical drama. With its Gallicesprit inseparable from the original text there evaporated somuch of its characteristic charm that few of M. Rostandsadmirers could approve of the transformation; but savingthe defects which were to be found chiefly in the musicalsettings of portions of its comedy it was yet a notable artisticachievement and one which reflected credit upon its authorsand the institution which produced it. It offered nothingpointing to the solution of the problem of English or Ameri-can opera; yet it was calculated, like Mona, to encouragenative composers to work, and this encouragement would, I think, have been greater had the opera been revived aftera careful revision, the need of which was recognized by its. Pasquale AmatoAs the Sheriff in La Fanciulla del West A LIST OF THE PERFORMERS 295 authors, instead of being thrown aside at the end of the sea-son despite the multitude of flattering words which wereheaped upon it after the first performance. The opera was performed with the parts distributed asfollows: Cyrano de Bergerac Pasquale Amato Roxane Frances Alda Duenna Marie Mattfeld Lise Vera Curtis A Flower Girl Louise Cox Mother Superior Florence Mulford Christian Riccardo Martin Bagueneau Albert Reiss De Guiche Putnam Griswold Le Bret William Hinshaw First Musketeer Basil Ruysdael Second Musketeer Marcel Reiner Montfleury) _ Lambert Murphy J. caoet J A monk Antonio Pini-Corsi xustin Hughes > Paol° Aanian Maurice SapioLouis Kreidler Boris Godounow/ owed its first performance inAmerica on March 19, 1913, under the direction ofSignor Toscanini, N