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offered mostly praise for the "fresh, young, powerful voices" of the cast; only
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Ramatzin, general of Montezuma's army, vie for the hand of Montezuma's daughter Azora; the former having prevailed, Montezuma condemns the lovers to death. In a scene set at dawn in a cavern, all gather by the sacrificial stone, but before the execution can proceed Cortez and his priests
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singled out for praise "a fine barbaric dance in the first act," the heroine's aria "Now Fades the Opal Sky" in Act 2, and some ensembles but suggested that more than one segment of the score somewhat outstayed its welcome. The paper also faulted the work for setting the execution in a cave: "The
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opera should have ended in the open, for the Aztecs worshipped on plateaus, on the pyramid of
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the routine of the theater, and still more the dramatic note, it nevertheless escapes being either mere scholar's music or unsingable." The
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