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Music
Haggin, B. H. | March 11, 1944 issue

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The Metropolitan has not accepted the contention that all its performances should be given in English so that the audiences may understand words that are sung and know what operas are about, but it has done so for operatic comedies, or rather for some of them, for musician Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Magic Flute," and now Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff." It is true that an audience needs to know what an opera is about. If advocates of opera in English were to attend a performance in Berlin, Germany or Vienna, Austria where all operas are sung in German, they would see as many people reading librettos as are to be seen in the Metropolitan.

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OPERAS; PUCCINI, Giacomo, 1858-1924; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; VERDI, Giuseppe, 1813-1901; MUSICIANS; COMEDY
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