The best melody in the modern Italian vein flows in the second act when the genuine affection and fidelity of Caterina find expression and where a light touch is combined with considerable warmth of feeling and a delightful daintiness of orchestral color.

Much of this is out of harmony with the fundamental character of Sardou's woman, but music cannot deny its nature.

Only a Moussorgsky could make a drunken monk talk truthfully in music.
If Giordano's opera failed to make a profound impression on the New York public, it was not because that public had not had opportunity to learn the quality of his music.

His "Andrea Chenier" had been produced at the Academy of Music as long before as November 13, 1896.

With it the redoubtable Colonel Mapleson went down to his destruction in America.