Il Guarany (Gomes)
Also known as: Guarany, Les Guaranis, Il Guarany
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Il Guarany, opera in four acts by the Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes, libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville after José de Alencar's novel O Guarani; first performed at La Scala, Milan, in 1870 (Wikipedia, "Il Guarany"). Its hero is a Guaraní chief in sixteenth-century Brazil. Marie calls it «Les Guaranis».References in Diary
- 1877-02-11, Naples (068.1317): at the San Carlo, «où on donnait "Les Guaranis". Un des plus détestables opéras que je connaisse...» (reader footnote 27 of that entry).
- 1877-03-01, Naples (069.0070): of a bore at the Skating, «Ce doit être un sauvage de la tribu des Guarany» — the joke borrows the opera's Indians (a name used as a type, so the paragraph is not tagged).
See also #San_Carlo.
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