StdOperas #58 The Standard Operas

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Standard Operas (12th edition), by George P. Upton vent to his joy in a martial song ("Hark! hark! methinks I hear"). The last scene is in the throne-room, where Manuel announces he is king of Castile, and mounts the throne singing a stirring song closely resembling, in its style, the "Fair Land of Poland," in "The Bohemian Girl." Elvira expresses her delight in a bravura air ("Oh, no! by Fortune blessed"), and the curtain falls. The story of the opera is very complicated, and sometimes tiresome; but the music is well sustained throughout, especially the buffo numbers, while some of the ballads are among the best ever written by an English composer. BEETHOVEN. Ludwig Von Beethoven, the greatest of composers, was born Dec. 17, 1770, at Bonn, Germany,

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