BookOfOperas #60 A Book of Operas

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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel the plot. Some day--soon, it is to be hoped--managers, singers, and public will awake to a realization that, even in the old operas in which beautiful singing is supposed to be the be-all and end-all, the action ought to be kept coherent. In that happy day Rossini's effervescent lyrical arrangement of Beaumarchais's vivacious comedy will be restored to its rights. CHAPTER I.I "LE N.O.Z.Z.E D.I FIGARO" Beaumarchais wrote a trilogy of Figaro comedies, and if the tastes and methods of a century or so ago had been like those of the present, we might have had also a trilogy of Figaro operas--"Le Barbier de Seville," "Le Mariage de Figaro,"

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