DEAN C. S. SKILTON WRITES AN OPERA
"TICONDEROGA"A PLAY OF COLONIAL DAYS.
Will Be Produced Next March as the Annual Fine Arts Play, if Finished in Time.
"Tieonderoga" is the title of an opera of which Dean Chrales S. Skilton of the School of Fine Arts is the author and composed. If present plans materialize, it will be offered this year as the annual play of the department of music. Deza Skilton wrote the liberetto last spring, but the scoring of the four acts has not been completed. This is a task which will keep the composer busy until after Christmas. It is planned to produce the opera some time in March.
The opera is legendary and historical in character and is not in the fareical comic opera style, though the second and third acts are light in style and contain many humorous episodes. The fourth act is serious and the ending of the opera is tragic.
"Ticonderoga" deals with events preceding the battle of that name. The setting of the first act is in Scotland, twelve years before the fight, and is a sort of prologue to the remaining action. The second and third acts deal with social life in Albany, N.Y., in 1758, the year of the battle. In act four, which takes place in camp the night before the battle, a prophecy made in the first act is fulfilled.
The cast contains parts for two opranos, one contralto, one mezzo-soprano, two tenors, one bar tone, and two basses. A chorus of twenty-four voices will constitute the remainder of the cast
"For several years I have been looking for a suitable plot for an opera," said Dean Skilton this morning, "and last year I found the desired material. As a consequence I have an almost completed opera which the members of the School of Fine Arts will present if I am able to prepare it in time. 'Ticonderoga' will, I think, make a pleasing opera, and because it is of a serious nature, I do not want people to imagine it will not contain lively features."
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