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Walton: Troilus and Cressida Reviews
Walton: Troilus and Cressida Reviews
| 11 of 15 people found the following review helpful  'The harm is don, and fare-wel faldefare!', By This review is from: Walton: Troilus and Cressida (Audio CD) The problem with Walton's Troilus and Cressida is Christopher Hassall's libretto. This may not be entirely Hassall's fault, as Walton himself and the usual quota of busybodies had an involvement in it. The idea of the opera was conceived in the immediate post-war period, and neither scribe nor composer had any previous experience in this particular area. Moreover it is probably a bit unreasonable - up to a point - to complain that the style of writing verges on the ludicrous in a post-war context when the war was not long over, but I simply can't swallow it all the same. If you were a contestant on Quote/Unquote or some such programme and asked to place the lines `Child of the wine-dark wave/Mantled in beauty,/Spirit of Immortal love' who would you guess? Elizabeth Barratt Browning, maybe? Christina Rosetti? Lady Walton in her preface gives us only a certain amount of insight into the turmoil there was over this libretto, but when she lets slip that Walton himself flung out the insult... Read more |
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