In form, taste and atmosphere, they are the very antithesis of grand opera.
It may be mentioned that this constitutes a record in the history of grand opera.
Illustration: =GRAND OPERA HOUSE, PARIS= This is the finest building of its class in the world.
It seems to me, Abe, that a feller which goes often on grand opera is lucky if he understands only English," Morris observed.
In fact I got so that I didn't mind it at all, and that's how I become acquainted with the different grades of singers which works by grand opera.
To him is largely due the development of opéra comique which has taken place within the last twenty years, a development which has taken it almost to the confines of grand opera.
More than that, while all actors are hard to handle, of all the combinations on earth, a grand opera company is the worst.
No one expected acting in grand opera, no one expected that the performers would be physically adaptable to their parts.
In other words, vaudeville was the stepping-stone to grand opera.
After touring the Italian opera houses he spent seven seasons in South America at a time when the interest in grand opera on that continent was developing tremendously.
He was fortunate in making appearances with the "Philadelphia Operatic Society," a remarkable amateur organization giving performances of grand opera on a large scale.
Primarily, an artist in grand opera must sing in some fashion to insure the proper projection of her role across the large spaces of the all-too-large auditoriums.
Grétry writes that he introduced lyric comedy on the stage because the public was tired of tragedy, and because he had heard so many lovers of dancing complain that their favourite art played only a subordinate rôle in grand opera.
He made no innovations, and merely served to keep alive the traditions of Grand Opera in France.
Thus, at the beginning of our century we find two art forms: First, grand opera of a strange nationality, and second, the small but rapidly developing form of comedy or drama with music.
The Opera Comique also gave grand opera on Sunday afternoons, and the one performance that I was fortunate enough to see--Carmen--was the most perfect production ofgrand opera that I have ever seen or heard.
He has made of it a "grand opera" in every sense; and yet so abounding in melody that even an untrained ear is captured.
Herein the actress has but a slight task compared to the opera singer, for in the drama it matters not if a word comes a moment sooner or later; but in grand opera a second's deviation might cause a discord.
Grand opera in itself is a culmination and combination of the greatest efforts of the greatest minds.
No kings, no marches--in a word, none of the usual accessories of Grand Opera.
On his return to Petersburg he criticised the work from beginning to end, and declared it to be utterly wanting in the "grand opera style.
Then came the news that Anschutz, the German manager, was about to bring a German company to the Terrace Garden in New York with a fine repertoire of grand opera, including Faust.
Personally, I do not see that it was the words that were inartistic, but, rather, the introduction of whiskey and soda at all into a grand opera.
In putting on grand opera in English I had, in each case, the tradition of two countries to contend with; but I endeavoured to secure some uniformity of style and usually rehearsed them all myself, sitting at the piano.
In my last year of study under Mrs. Long I reveled for the first time in the joys of grand opera.
And then and there was born within me a fervent and earnest decision that, come what may, I too must some day sing "Carmen" with the most wonderful cast of grand opera artists in the world, at the Metropolitan in New York.
And the crooning of a little mother over a baby's cradle fills the home with music sweeter to its builder than any note ever heard in grand opera.
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