Word: libretto
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...this year an operetta entitled "A Copper Complication." The performances will be held in Brattle Hall on the evenings of May 1, 3, and 4, at 8 o'clock. Miss Mabel W. Daniels '00 has composed the music and lyrics, and Miss Rebecca L. Hooper '00 has written the libretto. Reserved seats may be obtained at seventy-five cents each from Miss Marjorie Dewey, 10 Garden street, or at the door on the nights of performances...
...last few years a work has been created here in our midst which makes a permanent contribution to the modern opera. In fact "Azara" is the first grand opera on an original subject ever composed throughout by a native-born American. For Professor Paine has written his own libretto as well as the music, and both words and music show genius of the highest order; the words in their dramatic power and poetic beauty, and the music in that it is free and original in spirit while preserving symmetrical form and proportion. The scene is laid in Provence about...