Word: almavivas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's more, Chile is making its first forays into the top echelons of the wine marketplace. Early this month, Concha y Toro, in collaboration with France's Chateau Mouton Rothschild, unveiled Chile's first ultra-premium red wine, a $70 Cabernet-Merlot varietal called Almaviva. It is intended to be Chile's equivalent of a premier grand cru classe Bordeaux...
...awarding the Levi prize to deLima, Wilson listed her accomplishments in musical theater, including playing Countess Almaviva in Dunster House's "The Marriage of Figaro" and holding the title role in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players' production of "Patience...
Certainly the plot of "The Marriage of Figaro" requires a tongue-in-cheek approach; on paper, it is the kind of convoluted intrigue that gives opera a bad name. Figaro (Brian Saccente), valet to the Count Almaviva (Josh Benaim), is about to marry his sweetheart Susanna (Sarita Cannon), but the Count also has his eye on her. Although the Count has abolished the droit du seigneur, which traditionally allowed the lord to deflower any bride on her wedding night, he is tempted to revive it in Susanna's case. Though a philanderer, the Count is fanatically suspicious of his innocent...
...were guillotined during the Revolution. Another ghost is Beaumarchais himself, who has been in love with the queen for 200 spectral years. But she yearns only to live again. To amuse the ghosts and court the queen, Beaumarchais stages a Figaro opera-within-the-opera. The intrigues of the Almaviva household have changed little since Mozart's time. Both the count and countess have illegitimate children. Figaro is still the wily meddler, but his affection for practical Susanna remains firm...