From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15667 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, March 6 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15667 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 100 year old secret slashes power bills by 90% ["The Lost Generator" Subject: 100 year old secret slashes power bills by 90% 100 year old secret slashes power bills by 90% http://burnfat24.sa.com/PH09SdGRH8PJGBKr8WTFUfvPixWr-H-zzY8s_y3ly3vq6BXR-w http://burnfat24.sa.com/RHPGdng7tIpQT1NdGlcOUZahuvpAj9CXTas6gZ37lBJjYV0uaQ osed, it emerged during the 1867 rehearsal period that, without further cuts, the opera would not finish before midnight (the time by which patrons would need to leave in order to catch the last trains to the Paris suburbs). Verdi then authorised some further cuts, which were, firstly, the introduction to Act 1 (with a chorus of woodcutters and their wives, and including the first appearance of Elisabeth); secondly, a short entry solo for Posa (J'C)tais en Flandres) in Act 2, Scene 1; and, thirdly, part of the dialogue between the King and Posa at the end of Act 2, Scene 2. The opera was first published as given at the premiC(re and consisted of Verdi's original conception, without the music of the above-named cuts, but with the ballet. In 1969, at a Verdi congress in Verona, the American musicologist David Rosen presented the missing section from the Philip-Posa duet from the end of Act 2, which he had found folded down in the conductor's copy of the score. Other pages with cuts had simply been removed from the autograph score and the conductor's copy. Shortly thereafter, the British music critic Andrew Porter found most of these other cut passages could be reconstructed from the individual parts, in which the pages with the "lost" music had been either "pasted, pinned or stitched down." In all, 21 minutes of missing music was restored. Nearly all of the known music Verdi composed for the opera, including the pre-premiC(re cuts and later revisions, can be found in an integral edition prepared by the German musicologist Ursula GC