Alexander Mackenzie in Paris - the 1860's
from A Musician's Narrative , page 67:
At the Opera (the old house in Rue Lepeletier) I heard Christine Nilsson and Faure in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, but the ridiculous libretto, with the melancholy Dane's Brindisi and the Ghost's reappearance at the end (among other perversions) completely undermined my appreciative powers.
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Alexander Mackenzie, A Musician's Narrative (London, 1927), p. 67. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1431116847103 accessed: 9 January, 2025
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Hamlet
written by Ambroise Thomas |
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| Date/Time | the 1860's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by gkw on Fri, 08 May 2015 21:27:27 +0100
Approved on Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:44:11 +0100