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Query: Calabro's aria
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EDNOTE. A query from the editor.
In ADA , Part I, ch. 40, Van receives a note from Percy de Prey challenging him to a duel (arising from their tussle at Ada's 16tparagraphh birthday picnic. Van replies to the messanger:
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"No, Van did not desire to see the Count. He said so to the pretty messenger, who stood with one hand on the hip and one knee turned out like an extra, waiting for the signal to join the gambaders in the country dance after Calabro's aria."
MY QUESTION: WHO IS "CALABRO"? AN OPERA CHARACTER? THE REFERENCE TO A COUNTRY DANCE ECHOES THE SCENE (I-2) IN WHICH DEMON SEDUCES MARINA DURING A PERFORMANCE OF A PLAY BASED ON "EUGENE ONEGIN."
In ADA , Part I, ch. 40, Van receives a note from Percy de Prey challenging him to a duel (arising from their tussle at Ada's 16tparagraphh birthday picnic. Van replies to the messanger:
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"No, Van did not desire to see the Count. He said so to the pretty messenger, who stood with one hand on the hip and one knee turned out like an extra, waiting for the signal to join the gambaders in the country dance after Calabro's aria."
MY QUESTION: WHO IS "CALABRO"? AN OPERA CHARACTER? THE REFERENCE TO A COUNTRY DANCE ECHOES THE SCENE (I-2) IN WHICH DEMON SEDUCES MARINA DURING A PERFORMANCE OF A PLAY BASED ON "EUGENE ONEGIN."