Word: carmens
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...current St. Paul season ranges from a Carmen in French to a Siegfried in English. Last week the company offered the American premiere of Engagement in San Domingo by Germany's Werner Egk, 73, whose music tends to be grandiose and wildly varied. Engagement is a kind of Caribbean Aida set in what is now Haiti during the black natives' overthrow of the French colonists at the turn of the 19th century. The heroine is the mulatto Jeanne, who falls in love with the French officer Christoph, though her revolutionist mother Bobokan is plotting his death...
...Tips? I feel like Carmen. It's like a gypsy holding out a tambourine and they throw the coin. [Laughs] There might be occasions when the customers might intend to make it demeaning--the man about town, the conventioneer. When the time comes to pay the check, he would do little things, 'How much should I give you?' He might make an issue about it. I did say to one, 'Don't play God with me. Do what you want.' I would spit it out, my resentment--that he dares make me feel I'm operating only...
...before the critics had their say. Unanimous in mourning the passing of a great voice, they described her performance as "thin, hesitant" and her top register as weak, even squally. The man from the Financial Times summed it up: "The effect was -well, as if the final duet of Carmen had been a record played on an old-fashioned gramophone...
...Yale defensive system has been a key to the team's seven-game winning streak, and the Elis have not given up more than seven points in any of their past four outings. Coach Carmen Cozza has developed much the same type of defensive coordination that has marked most of his Yale squads, though this year the team is bolstered by stronger and more agile ends...
...young lieutenant colonel was not allowed by the bourgeois Polo family to visit their teen-age daughter Carmen. Displaying the determination that would later win him all of Spain, Francisco Franco captured the girl's heart by tucking messages into the hatband of a mutual friend who then delivered the love letters to the bride-to-be. Last week Francisco, 80, and Carmen, 71, celebrated their golden wedding, anniversary with a formal Mass at the Pardo Palace, attended by the Council of the Realm, most of the royal family and leading government figures. "A very quiet family...