OPERA COMMENTARIES.
| Sir,-It must be disheartening for a writer of Opera Commentaries to have his good work criticised, but I think the point most of the critics have tried to make has been overlooked by those who have defended the system of presenting operas, My objection is that the commentator intrudes too much. Would not a short summary before each Act be sufficient explanation to those who are not familiar with the work? To the many who know the operas it is extremely annoying to have to strain to hear a song behind the commentator’s voice. In this way some of the most beautiful phrases are lost, and even when the commentator has the air to himself his too: frequent interruptions shock the listener out of his enjoyment of the music.
G.
C.
' (Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 3
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