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Voi. VIII. February 1, 1863. * No. 48.
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X.XIV.— LETTBJE SUE, L'AET.-OEPHEE, GLUC...
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THE > ENGLISH WOMAN'S _JOUKNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY . ;
Voi. Viii. February 1, 1863. * No. 48.
Voi . VIII . February 1 , 1863 . * No . 48 .
X.Xiv.— Lettbje Sue, L'Aet.-Oephee, Gluc...
_XXIV— LETTBJE _SUEL'AET .-OEPHEEGLUCK _.., _, _, MADAME VIAB _. DOT . \ _^
In Introducing Tlie Following" Paper To ...
In introducing tlie following" paper to English readers , it may be as well to say a few words concerning the remarkable artistic
creation through which Madame Viardot has achieved the greatest triumph of her dramatic career . The opera of- Orpheus , written in
1764 by the Bohemian composer Gluck , belongs essentially to the classical school of art . It is in music what in ancient days the
dramas of Sophocles , and in modern times those of CorneiUe , are to literature . What ancient statuary is to modern painting , such is
Orpheus compared to an Italian opera . It has been performed in London , but not by Madame Viardot , and English lovers of music
as such have had no opportunity of realizing the full effect of this work of art . The enthusiasm excited in Paris by the repeated
performance of _Orpheus may be compared to the popular excitement produced by a great novel ;—a grand poem . If it is music to the
musician , it is poetry to the poet , art to the artist ; and we would add statuary to the sculptor . Pauline Viardotthe younger sister
, of that Malibran so much beloved and lamented in England , is well known and honored among us ; her great powers are perhaps best
known to us in the Trovatore and the Prophhte . . She is generally recognised as the greatest lyric artiste now living , with none at
least td dispute the palm save Grisi . This short paper , by Madame Pape Carpentier _* depicts her as she appears in Gluck ' s masterpiece .
The criticism is , cast in the form of a familiar letter , purporting to be written by a French officer on furlough to his wife at Shanghai .
Shang-hai , 17 Fevrier 1861 , _Monsr cher Ami , —
Avant de quitter notre cher Paris pour revenir dans ce pays de Chinois barbares et baroques , dis-moi , je t ' en prie , ce que c'est quo
cet opera d'Orphee qui depuis dix-huit niois obtient un si grand ' succes !
Nos bons voisins Sander qui Font vu sont arrives ici encore tout enthousiasmes malgre le temps et la distance . Je me l ' explique
was * assi In our gned biograp to hex * h marriage y of this , lad which y which took appeared place in 1849 last . month , a wrong date
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/1/
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