Anna Sanfilippo's articles with the keyword: Regina

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Overture, The Fair Melusine, Op 32 (1833) Mendelssohn thought his Fair Melusine overture “the best” and “most intimate” thing he had ever produced, an opinion shared, as he informed his beloved sister Fanny in a letter, by many of the people who heard him conduct it in Leipzig in 1836. On the other hand, he was irked by an excessively descriptive review of it by a German critic, whose references to red coral, green sea-beasts, magic castles, and deep seas we…