Are You There?
Are You There? è un’opera in di Ruggero Leoncavallo, rappresentata per la prima volta nel 1913.
Are You There? is a "farcical musical play in two acts" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo with a book by Albert de Courville and lyrics by Edgar Wallace. Also described as an "operette" by Variety, it premièred unsuccessfully on 1 November 1913 at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London to a rowdy audience which almost became a riot. Its star, Shirley Kellogg, was Courville's wife.
Trama di Are You There?
Sylvia becomes a telephone exchange employee in order to learn government secrets, and hopes to obtain for her father a baronetcy. In turn, he furthers the scheme by working as a mechanic in a building. A young gentleman, Gregory Lester, who hears her voice on the telephone comes to the exchange to find its owner. Succeeding, he takes her to the Casino at Nice, France. Lawrence Grossmith played the manager of the telephone exchange.
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Libretto di Are You There?
Il libretto è scritto da Edgar Wallace.
Opere contemporanee
Rappresentate nel decennio a cavallo del 1913, altre 6 opere del repertorio archiviato di compositori diversi:
- Der Rosenkavalier — Richard Strauss (1910)
- Don Quichotte — Jules Massenet (1910)
- Mese mariano — Umberto Giordano (1910)
- Déjanire — Camille Saint-Saëns (1911)
- Isabeau — Pietro Mascagni (1911)
- Roma — Jules Massenet (1912)
Altre opere di Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Pagliacci (1892)
- I Medici (1893)
- Chatterton (1896)
- La bohème (1897)
- La bohème (1897)
- Zazà (1900)
- Der Roland von Berlin (1904)
- Zingari (1912)
- Mameli (1916)
- Edipo re (1920)
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