Italian Opera will succeed German at the Metropolitan.
—Daily Papers.
PUCK, February 11th, 1891.
Die Götterdämmerung.
Tenor.
Juchheia! Hoja! Tuba! Toobahd!
Geh’ ich. Ich gehe. Gingend’weise geh’ ich!
Italienische Nonsensikalische
Knocken mich aus.
Alles is up mit true music.
Of Donizetti the day dawns.
Wagner has waggled his wag.
Vogner has voggled his vog.
Chorus.
Juchheia! Hoja!
Ahdehr![A]
Stehdehr!
Muhvahn!
Orchestra Embdy-iss-der-Gradle motif.
Soprano.
But for the baseborn barbarians,
Tinkling triumphantly tunes,
Scornfullest scorn,
Spurnfullest spurning is ours.