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  • "Serenade" was his third masterpiece (after "Apollon musag te" in 1928 and "Le Fils Prodigue" in 1929) and the first of many to his beloved Tchaikovsky.

    The Ballet That Changed Everything 2010

  • "L'Enfant Prodigue," though greater pains were taken with it, has none of the glow of dramatic feeling.

    Voltaire 2007

  • In two successive winters his tragedies of Zayre, Alzire, Zulime, and his sentimental comedy of the Enfant Prodigue, were played at the theatre of Monrepos.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • The great success that has attended the production of _L'Enfant Prodigue_ at the Prince of Wales's Theatre has encouraged me to make a suggestion in the cause of English Art. Why not SHAKSPEARE in dumb show?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various

  • Prodigue_, the play without words, should be "the talk of London."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891 Various

  • Prodigue_ -- which the English schoolboy thought was French for an uncommonly big Marie Louise specimen; so there is justification and authority for bringing this new member of _The Prodigal_ family before the Public.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 Various

  • The play was called "L'Enfant Prodigue," and was presented by a company of French artists.

    The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

  • To us the mimetic posturing of the _pantomimus_ appears an almost ridiculous substitute for drama; but the dancing of the actors seems to have been extraordinarily artistic and at times to have had a profound effect upon the emotions of the audience, [104] while the brilliant success in our own time of plays in dumb show, such as the famous _Enfant Prodigue, _ should be a warning against treating the

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Grande Prix de Rome, with his cantata, "L'Enfant Prodigue," in 1884, as a pupil of Guirand.

    The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898

  • "L'Enfant Prodigue," and was presented by a company of French artists.

    The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894

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