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Title: 3rd Rate Opera by 2nd Rate Composer: 1st Rate Disappointment
Review: I had read such wonderful things about this work in a couple of books, lamenting its disappearance from the repertory, lamenting the lack of sopranos with the voice to tackle it. Having heard the highlights from Iris, and the whole of Parisina I was expecting more of Mascagni's characteristic mix of Italian lyricism with Wagnerian gavitas and orchestration: what I got was something very very dull, utterly unmemorable. The singers are all undone by their roles to one degree or another, singing music that leaves your head the moment is is done. Parisina is much better (and it ain't all that great).No loss to the opera reportory, this. Avoid it.
