t that the waiting-people have not well served them. A tailor comes from Paris with fascinating gowns and bonnets and Kate for a moment forgets that she is half-famished as she inspects them with true feminine delight. She buys and eagerly waits to try the effect upon Petruchio but he declares her choice ridiculous and bids her discard the garments at once. But a strange thing has happened to Katherine. She does not want to fight with this Petruchio. She wants to love him and have him love her and she so confesses. The opera ends as Baptista arrives with Bianca and Lucentio, who just have been married, to find Kate and Petruchio not scratching each other's eyes out, but making love in the conventional way.
The opera, which is truly charming, was the only product of the genius of a composer, whose early death cut short a career full of promise.
Among the numbers are Lucentio's serenade, " Haste ye, tones of love and longing; " Petruchio's song, " She is a wife for such a man created; " Katherine's song in the second act, " I'll give myself to no man " and the quintet which closes the act.
In the third act are the love-songs of Lucentio and Hortensio, skilfully mingled with the giving of lessons to Bianca, and the music greeting the belated arrival of Petruchio. In the fourth act occur Katherine's confession " Of fighting I am wearying," and the love-duet of Katherine and Petruchio, " The silver moon invites."