BookOfOperas #166 A Book of Operas

Published on: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:51:19 -0700

Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel many years after Mozart brought out his opera, and, indeed, was performed in London twenty-three years before Mozart's opera got a hearing. It is doubtful, however, if the London representation did justice to the work. Da Ponte was poet to the opera there when "Il Convitato" was chosen for performance, and it fell to him to prepare the book to suit the taste of the English people. He tried to persuade the management to give Mozart's opera instead, and, failing in that, had the malicious satisfaction of helping to turn the work of Bertati and Gazzaniga into a sort of literary and musical pasticcio,

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Added: October 13, 2008