What Opera Lafayette’s Dido and Aeneas lost in gravitas it gained in charm and specificity.
So, um, I guess we can agree that words are more important than music?
While composed within a European style, La Fanciulla del West is an opera that manages to present a distinctly American experience.
Xavier Montsalvatge is best known in these parts for the songs of his “Antilles” period in the 1940s, the exquisite “Cinco Canciones Negras” and so on, making use of rhythms and melodies with a Caribbean flavor.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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