Hermann Klein in Covent Garden - 1899

from Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900, page 450:







The season of 1899 yielded but a single novelty, namely, Isidore de Lara's “Messaline”. True, this was the work of an Englishman; but it was composed to a French libretto and performed by French artists, and it owed its hearing exclusively to foreign influence. Its success, despite the glamour of its picturesque Roman setting, and notwithstanding the art of Heglon, Alvarez, and Renaud, must perforce be described as equivocal. The story at best is revolting; and the music combines with a few fine moments many dull quarts d'heure.
			

			
 
			
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Hermann Klein, Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900 (New York City, 1903), p. 450. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1438598288957 accessed: 22 November, 2024
			

		
  
	


	
	



	







	
	location of experience: Covent Garden
	
		


 


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		Hermann Klein
		



Music Critic, Singing Teacher, Writer		

		

1856-1934		

	


	





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				Messaline
			
written by Isidore de Lara			

					
			
performed by Albert Alvarez, Marie Renaud, Meyriane Heglon			
		

	




Experience Information



	
		

			Date/Time
			1899
			
		

		

			Medium
			
			live			
		

		

			Listening Environment
			
			in the company of others, indoors, in public			
		

	









Originally submitted by sp327 on Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:38:10 +0100



Approved on Sun, 24 Apr 2016 15:53:24 +0100