Mazeppa

From literature Mazeppa has passed into art in the "symphonic poem" of Franz Lizt (1857); and, yet again, _pour comble de gloire_, _Mazeppa, or The Wild Horse of Tartary_, is the title of a "romantic drama," first played at the Royal

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

He called Mazeppa an enemy and a traitor, and threatened to have him impaled alive.

Peter the Great Jacob Abbott 1841

Menken is most famous for her appearance in the melodrama "Mazeppa," in which she appeared clad in pink tights and a loincloth, riding wildly across the stage.

Personal Information for Adah Isaacs Menken 2010

Menken is most famous for her appearance in the melodrama "Mazeppa," in which she appeared clad in pink tights and a loincloth, riding wildly across the stage.

Personal Information for Adah Isaacs Menken Jewish Women's Archive 2010

"Mazeppa," a compelling work that deftly fuses political and personal issues, has been seen in New York twice in recent years: The Kirov Opera brought it over in 1998, and the Met mounted a different production, borrowed from St. Petersburg, in 2006.

Wagner Meets Maazel at the Met 2008

Maude Wendell would be seen in a series of declamations chosen from her greatest theatrical triumphs here and in Europe, specifically, "Portia's Address to the Court" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice; "Farewell of the Parthian Mother to Her Son about to Fight Wild Beasts in the Roman Colosseum-; and "Selections from "Mazeppa" by Lord Byron.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

This book Mr.. Craik sent to Mark Lemon, who invited the young graduate to the _Punch_ office, and adopting the grotesque illustrations to "Mazeppa" at once, gave him a sort of running commission to do incidental work, to which Mr. Riviere gladly responded by a total of the twenty-three cuts -- chiefly of wild animal subjects -- contributed by him through 1868 and 1869.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Here is also a figure of Mazeppa on the wild horse, which is extremely well made, and, perhaps, reminds those of my little friends who have seen the play of "Mazeppa" at

The World's Fair Anonymous

And even "Mazeppa," in which Liszt's virtuosic genius stood him in good stead, makes one feel as though

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Compositions like the B-minor piano-sonata, the tone-poem "Mazeppa," the

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918