The fact is that "Otello" disclosed an honest, consistent, and in many respects successful effort to realize the higher purposes which we associate in the conception of a lyric drama as distinguished from the opera.
Probably he concluded that it lacked the dramatic elements which the composers of the last few decades, paying tribute, willingly or unwillingly, to Wagner's genius, have felt to be necessary to the success of a lyric drama.
Sapho, as a lyric drama, did not have a success in New York.
I first heard Debussy's lyric drama, Pelleas et Melisande, at the Opera-Comique, with Miss Garden as the principal interpreter.
An interesting opera on this subject is +Alexandre Stadtfeldt's+ lyric drama Hamlet, book by Jules Guillaume.
A very interesting opera on this subject is +Aristide Hignard's+ lyric dramain five acts, book by Pierre de Garal.
Prince of Wales, and was called Les Amants de Verone, a lyric dramain five acts, words and music by d'Ivry.
It had, too, in embryonic form all that apparatus for the enchantment of the sense and the beguilement of the intellect which in the following century was the chief attraction of a lyric drama, partly opera, partly spectacle and partly ballet.
The author has not deemed it essential to his aims that he should recount the history of all European essays in the field of lyric drama, but only that of those which directly affected the Italians and were hence the most important.
We know his plan in detail, but he abandoned it after he had offered his sketches to a French poet as the basis of a lyric drama which he hoped to write for Paris.
Whether or not the great Corsican could be justified as a character in a lyric dramawas a mooted question when Giordano conceived the idea of making an opera out of the play.
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