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Show Pietro Mascagni Writes New Opera "H Piccolo Marat" ROME, June in (Correspondence of, the Associated Press) Pietro Mascag ni. known to everyone as the composer of Cavalleria Rustlcana and numerous! other musical works, has written aj new opera, "II Piccolo Marat," which ! is characterized hero as distinctly a revolutionary step in operatic works It contains no personalities as characters char-acters in the story' but it substitutes for them symbolic representations of I virtues and ideal.-, similar to the American Amer-ican pageant. "1 expect to produce my new opera next winter in Rome." said Signor I Mascagni to the Associated Press cor-n cor-n spund' iii "The theme is found on the conflict of ideas between the auto- crat and -the democrat, between op-1 pression and freedom. The time of it, of course, is not limited to any one( period. The opera is symbolic of many periods and would jusv as read Uj apply to the stirring times of the American revolution as it would to the French revolution, or the Russian, or Bavarian. "I have no characters in the production produc-tion representing any particular personalities per-sonalities There is no Napoleon, Metternieh or Garibaldi. My characters charac-ters represent the ideas for which men have striven and also the ideas which have endeavored to keep man in subjection. sub-jection. There is a character for Jus-lice, Jus-lice, for Truth, for Freedom; and. on the other hand, for Tyranny, for Ignorance, Ig-norance, for Wrens:. The plan in mv new work has been to depict in song the evolution of man from a slave to B free man through the Instrumentality of characters representing the abstract qualities for which man fought and on the contrary, the qualities he fought against." |