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Cavalleria Rusticana <br/>(Rustic Chivalry)
Music:Pietro MascagniLibretto:G. Menasci and G. Targioni-Tozzetti, based on a story of G. VergaPremiere:Rome, May 17, 1890 A phenomenally successful drama of betrayal and retribution,…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Address To A Haggis
by Robert Burns Address To EdinburghAddress To A Haggis Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race! Aboon them a' yet tak your place,…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Duan Second
by Robert Burns Duan FirstSuppressed Stanza's Of "The Vision"Duan Second With musing-deep, astonish'd stare, I view'd the heavenly-seeming Fair; A whispering throb did…Favorite Opera Stories
AïdaIl Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)La BohèmeBoris GodunovCarmenCavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry)La Cenerentola (Cinderella)Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann)Cosi…Brewer's: Bacon
The Bacon of Theology. Bishop Butler, author of the Analogy. (1692–1752.) Bacon's brazen head. (See Brazen.) To baste your bacon. To strike or scourge one. The Saxons were called “hogs…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Suppressed Stanza's Of "The Vision"
by Robert Burns Duan SecondSuppressed Stanza's Of "The Vision" To Mrs. Stewart of Stair, Burns presented a manuscript copy of the Vision. That copy embraces about twenty stanzas…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Fragment On Sensibility
by Robert Burns Epistle To Major LoganA Winter NightFragment On Sensibility Rusticity's ungainly form May cloud the highest mind; But when the heart is nobly warm, The…Aesop's Fables: The Hare and the Hound
by Aesop The Mouse and the BullThe Town Mouse and the Country MouseThe Hare and the Hound A Hound started a Hare from her form, and pursued her for some distance; but as she gradually…Justin Vernon
Justin Vernon is the creator of Bon Iver, the indie music project which won him a Grammy as best new artist in 2012. Bon Iver is called a band, though it's mainly the alter ego of Vernon: he writes,…The Devil's Dictionary: Grave
by Ambrose Bierce GRAPESHOTGRAVITATIONGRAVE -n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood — With brambles 'twas…Trending
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