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"THIS leads to a highly dramatic trio, the Count leaves the stage to seek his vengeance, Leonora falls senseless and that brings us to the end of the first act" .... "Maddalena flings open the door, Gilda rushes in and the deed is done" .... "Torn between her love for her father and for Alvare, the unwitting cause of her father’s death, she prays in this aria that she may dié." The Christchurch stations have been going opéfatic in a big way of late, and the voice of the narrator has been heard in the land, recounting dilemmas and disasters such as the above, in tones of rich satisfaction. For the radio audience the narrator may yet become as indispéensable to the opera as the blazing eye of the conductor: and there can be ‘no doubt that he enjoys himself. Perhaps this is the best attitude to the misfortunes of Verdi’s characters-one of undisguised, though in no way sadistic, glee-for I doubt if it .can be maintained that tragic opera purges the soul with emotions of pity and terror (I hasten to add that there are exceptions). One wishes to see the louder passions on a lavish scale, and one does.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 8
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200Opera New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 8
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