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{{a|otto|{{image|The Chasm to America|png|''O! Great Yawning Chasm To The New World'' {{vsr|1886}}}}}}{{br|Der Kampf um Talente}}, sometimes performed in Italian as {{br|La Lotta Per Attrarre Talenti}} (“[[The Struggle To Attract Talent]]”), is an unfinished operetta by winsome Austrian librettist and amateur composer Otto {{buchstein}}. Never performed in his lifetime, | {{a|otto|{{image|The Chasm to America|png|''O! Great Yawning Chasm To The New World'' {{vsr|1886}}}}}}{{br|Der Kampf um Talente}}, sometimes performed in Italian as {{br|La Lotta Per Attrarre Talenti}} (“[[The Struggle To Attract Talent]]”), is an unfinished operetta by winsome Austrian librettist and amateur composer Otto {{buchstein}}. Never performed in his lifetime, or for that matter since, a fully-formed script was recovered from his belongings in the opium den in Mandalay where he spent his last, fevered months. | ||
There is some controversy about its provenance: some point to the self-interested work of {{Buchstein}}’s life-long antagonist {{jerrold}}, anxious to boost his consultancy fees. | There is some controversy about its provenance: some point to the self-interested work of {{Buchstein}}’s life-long antagonist {{jerrold}}, anxious to boost his consultancy fees. | ||
Most famous rousing aria, accompanied by the string section playing specially- | Most famous rousing aria, accompanied by the string section playing unique three-quarter sized violins specially-invented, comes when Prepostero, senior managing partner of [[magic circle law firm|Magic Circle]] form ''Slaughter Cowards Later'' stands upon a white cliff overlooking jagged rocks of the tempestuous ocean between Albion and the New World, shaking his fists and wailing into the chasm: | ||
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