Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 1999/02

From: "L. BORCHERT" <lborcher@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] The opera AIDA
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 04:39:19 -0500

A good story, but it needs one correction. The actual premier of Aida was
in Cairo Egypt without the composer present on December 24, 1871. (We
just did a production, complete with a live elephant, in El Paso.

Laroy
Dr. Laroy Borchert

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, avrahm galper wrote:

> The first performance of Aida took place in Parma. It was a great
> success. Verdi was called on stage for 29 curtain calls. Everyone was
> happy. The audience loved it. This was their composer and their type of
> opera.
> But there was one man, whose name was Prospero Bertani, who traveled to
> Parma from Reggio Amelia, who didn't like the performance.
> When this Bertani returned to his town, he wrote Verdi and told him
> that he didn't like the opera and demanded back the price of the ticket,
> the train ticket and the meal.
>
> Verdi replied that he would gladly refund Prospero his opera ticket
> money and the train money.
> The meal: NO!
> YOU COULD HAVE HAD YOUR MEAL AT HOME BEFORE COMING TO THE PERFORMANCE!
>
> --
> Avrahm Galper
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