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Orb, v. 2, issue 1, 1950
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OPERA Love for 3 Oranges by Serge Prokofieff Book after Gozz's L'amor delle tre melorancie. Produced in Chicago: 1922. A dissonant, impressionistic score of dramatic power. Outstanding passages: "The Royal March"; "Marche a la Cantonade"; the Prince's "Laughing Song," and the Prince's and Princess's duet in the desert, "Thank You, Dear Prince." In his palace where the King of Trifle rules, his son the Prince, poisoned by a hateful aunt, lies ill. The only thing that will cure him is a hearty laugh which the court tries in vain to call forth. At last, the sight of the ugly witch, Fata Morgana, falling as she is thrown from the palace produces the curing laugh; but Fata Morgana lays a curse on the Prince: he will have to fall in love with three oranges and shall know no happiness till his love is returned. Setting out with his servant Truffaldino, the Prince finds the three oranges guarded in the middle of the desert by a house of ogres, the principle one being the cook, sung by a deep basso. The cook is lured away from her post by a magic ribbon, and the Prince rescues the oranges...Each contains an enchanted Princess but two have died within their rinds for lack of water and only the third, Nicoletta, survives. With her, the Prince returns to court, and though she is first turned into a rat, the opera ends with old Fata Morgana sinking through a trap into hell, while the Prince and Nicoletta live happily ever after.
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OPERA Love for 3 Oranges by Serge Prokofieff Book after Gozz's L'amor delle tre melorancie. Produced in Chicago: 1922. A dissonant, impressionistic score of dramatic power. Outstanding passages: "The Royal March"; "Marche a la Cantonade"; the Prince's "Laughing Song," and the Prince's and Princess's duet in the desert, "Thank You, Dear Prince." In his palace where the King of Trifle rules, his son the Prince, poisoned by a hateful aunt, lies ill. The only thing that will cure him is a hearty laugh which the court tries in vain to call forth. At last, the sight of the ugly witch, Fata Morgana, falling as she is thrown from the palace produces the curing laugh; but Fata Morgana lays a curse on the Prince: he will have to fall in love with three oranges and shall know no happiness till his love is returned. Setting out with his servant Truffaldino, the Prince finds the three oranges guarded in the middle of the desert by a house of ogres, the principle one being the cook, sung by a deep basso. The cook is lured away from her post by a magic ribbon, and the Prince rescues the oranges...Each contains an enchanted Princess but two have died within their rinds for lack of water and only the third, Nicoletta, survives. With her, the Prince returns to court, and though she is first turned into a rat, the opera ends with old Fata Morgana sinking through a trap into hell, while the Prince and Nicoletta live happily ever after.
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