| Evidence: | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the people he knew who lived on black coffee and little else in romantic Paris, and was saddened and perplexed by the opera's alloy of sordidness and sentimentality'. |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1929 and 1 Oct 1939 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Glasgow specific address: Mitchell Library |
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| Reader: | Ralph Glasser |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Apr 1916 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | factory worker, later economist |
| Religion: | Jewish |
| Country of origin: | England of lithuanian heritage |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Luigi Illica |
| Title: | [libretto of 'La Boheme] |
| Genre: | Drama, libretto |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ Mitchell Library |
| Record ID: | 20693 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ralph Glasser | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 158 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ralph Glasser, Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs (London, 1990), p. 158, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20693, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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