Word: alzira
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Repeat performances scheduled for last week were canceled in the shambles of the opening night. But there remained a good question as to why Il Corsaro was chosen in the first place. Except for his disastrously bad Alzira, it represents Verdi's single lapse from musicianship and inspiration, and the preposterous libretto, inspired by Byron's The Corsair-the story of an Aegean pirate whose ill-starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious...
...straightforward appeal to President Eisenhower at the Western Hemisphere Presidents' meeting in Panama. Another Brazilian of distinction who will work for the Ex-Im loan is Rio's new ambassador, to Washington, Ernani do Amaral Peixoto, who arrived in New York last week with his wife Alzira, daughter of the late President Getulio Vargas. Amaral Peixoto took a leave of absence as chief of Brazil's top political party, the Social Democrats, to accept the post. With Kubitschek, Amaral Peixoto and Lopes all working on an already well-disposed Eisenhower Administration, it is likely that the Brazilians...
...could see fighting going on outside," reported Daughter Alzira. "The invaders seemed armed with machine guns and grenades. Projectiles cut through the tall palms of the garden and chipped the palace walls." For three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head...
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