Ep. 97 OFE Meets Maestro Joseph Rescigno, ft Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss
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The Romance Language Is Faust Sung in Italian
Until well into the twentieth century, all the operas were sung in french. Richard strauss wrote a letter to lasohalas, who conducted the first ariadne fnaxos in the united statesd anhalas showed me this letter from strauss and said, try at least do the prologue in english,. because the audience will become impatient if they don't understand what's going on from stras himself. But mors o, what began to change this that even smaller theatres in europe are doing it in original language is because of the er invention of sur titles.
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