Crossword-Solution: HABANERA 8 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Lehmann as the gipsy cigarette maker, with her Habanera and Seguidilla, with her errant fancy wandering from a sentimental brigadier to a dashing bull fighter, is a conception which will not come easy to the admirers of the later Brünnhilde and Isolde; and, indeed, she was a puzzling phenomenon to the experienced observers of that time.

Eight novelties were promised, viz.: D'Albert's "Tiefland," and Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" in German; Catalani's "La Wally," Puccini's "Le Villi," and Tschaikowsky's "Pique Dame" in Italian; Laparra's "Habanera" in French; Frederick Converse's "Pipe of Desire," and either Goldmark's "Cricket on the Hearth," or Humperdinck's "Königskinder" in English.

After supper we went into the ball-room, and saw for the first time the Cuban waltz, otherwise called _Habanera_, a curious dance something between a shuffle and a languid glide.

Then, as almost always happened in these boarding-house sprees, some wag turned on the music-box in the corridor and the duet from _La Mascotte_ together with the waltz from _La Diva_ rose in confusion upon the air; the Superman and Celia danced a couple of waltzes and the party wound up with everybody singing a _habanera_, until they wearied and each owl flew off to his nest.

Conspicuously successful have been his "Gata and Danga Habanera" and his "Trip to Spain," the latter being for piano and orchestra.