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[ Even in 1752 Metastasio bitterly complains of this perversion of dramatic] Binging (Opp. post., II., pp. 94, 99, 215, 330).]
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[ Grétry declares that he once saw a singer go behind the scenes to suck an orange, while another on the stage continued to address him as though he were present (Mém., I., p. 119).]
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[ Grétry, Mém., I., p. 114.]
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[ Arteaga (cap. 12) gives a graphic account of the downfall of the opera, which had been incessantly bewailed ever since the publication of Marcello's bitter satire, Il Teatro alla modo (Ven., 1722, 1738). Cf. Le Brigandage de la Musique Italienne (Amst., 1780).]
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[ Raguenet (Parallèle des Italiens et des François, 1702, § 26, in Mattheson's Musik. Kritik, I., p. 141).]