Crotchets And Quavers: Or, Revelations of An Opera Manager in America
Crotchets And Quavers: Or, Revelations of An Opera Manager in America
Maretzek, Max, 1821-1897
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in my fancy, I had listened to you while urging its immediate performance. It is needless to say, that I left not my Opera for a moment in your hands, after your opinion had been expressed. Resolved, however, not to abandon my chance of immortali- ty, I hurried off to Doctor Ignaz Jeitteles, the celebrated Pro- • fessor of Esthetics, and with less modesty than that which had been displayed towards you, laid the score before him. My request was, and sooth to say, it was made, if my memory serves... me, in a remarkably determined manner, that he would use his influence in proposing my Opera for performance at the Imperial Opera. After a few questions which he addressed to me, he in all probability ascertained that I could not be easily dismissed. He therefore requested me to leave my score with him and to return in a few days. 144 BEVELATIONS OF AN The minutes and seconds of those few days were eagerly counted by me. They seemed to me so many centuries. On the appointed day, I accordingly presented myself again.
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