Word: bondini
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Marriage of Figaro was well received at Prague in 1786. The impresario Bondini hoped to profit again and commissioned Mozart and Daponte for the next season; the fruit of the collaboration was Don Giovanni. As can be said of almost any piece, the opera does contain some of Mozart's finest music. The ensembles are particularly subtle for their delicate musical characterizations...
Meanwhile, Monnet's personal life took an international turn. At a Paris dinner party in 1928, he met darkly handsome Silvia de Bondini, a painter and wife of an Italian diplomat. Silvia soon left her husband; after five years of trying to obtain an Italian divorce, she was whisked to Moscow by Monnet, for a quick Moscow divorce and wedding. The gay Gallic bachelor became a devoted family man (the Monnets have two grown daughters). At their home at Houjarray, some 20 miles west of Paris,, he often talks through his notions with Silvia while she paints...
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