CHAPTER XVI

"MADAME SANS-GENE" AND OTHER OPERAS BY GIORDANO

First performance of "Madame Sans-Gene," A singing Napoleon, Royalties

in opera, Henry the Fowler, King Mark, Verdi's Pharaoh, Herod, Boris

Godounoff, Macbeth, Gustavus and some mythical kings and dukes, et

seq.--Mattheson's "Boris," Peter the Great, Sardou's play and

Giordano's opera, Verdi on an operatic Bonaparte, Sardou's characters,

"Andrea Chenier," French Rhythms, "Fedora," "Siberia," The historic

Chenier, Russian local color, "Schone Minka," "Slava," "Ay ouchnem,"

French revolutionary airs, "La Marseillaise," "La Carmagnole," "Ca ira,"

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