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FOR ALL ITS merits and many advocates, the short story has never really held its own against the full-length novel as a literary form. There are one-act plays, but they cut comparatively little dramatic ice.
And in opera, while Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, not to mention the Puccini trilogy, are perennial favorites, the one-act opera remains a rarity" in the repertory. Yet in classical ballet of the past century, the one-act form not only held its own against the full-evening ballet but also established itself everywhere, except in Russia, as the self-evident gold standard.
However, from about the middle of the twentieth century onward--the first New York season in 1949 by the [then] Sadler's Wells Ballet seems to have been a turning...
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