Friday, January 27, 2012

Vittore Ugo is not amused: "Si ridesti il leon"

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The Metropolitan book of the opera
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Pitts Sanborn, Emil Hilb - 1937 - 396 pages - Snippet view

The chorus, "Si ridesti il leon di Castiglia" was the signal for a political demonstration, and when "Ernani" was given in Paris, Victor Hugo was so angered by the desecration, as he felt it to be, of his play that he insisted on changes ...

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