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Arms and the Man

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Arms and the Man
satirizes romantic view of war. [Br. Lit.: Arms and the Man]


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The play -- Arms and the Man -- is timely, making serious fun of the meaninglessness and stupidity of war.
Where arms and the man went, finally, went the singer: references to Brancaccio's "miraculous" bass voice began to appear in the 1540s, a voice that by the late 1570s won him yet another triumph, a place among the virtuosi of Alfonso II d'Este's musica segreta.
1909: The first performance took place of Oscar Strauss's The Chocolate Soldier, the operetta based on Shaw's Arms And The Man.
 
 
 
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