DISILLUSIONED!
Hero is considerable difference of opinion as to tho advantage or otherwise nf having opera sung in English, as is done by the Qunihin company (savs a writer in an Australian paper). 'The libretto is not the operatic "long suit," and as music is said to bo an art which expresses "emotion without ideas" a foreign tongue, besides being generally morn mellifluous, leaves a little latitude for tho imagination. Many illusions are shattered when the often trivial English words reach our ears. "Boys, 1 am busied," sings the homesick minor in Puccini's American opera. Wo svinpathiso Willi his parlous condition, but tho 'bald statement of it affronts us.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 10
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109DISILLUSIONED! Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 10
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