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...form's grandeur of aspiration and complexity of means, it is difficult to find a trivial opera. Yet Tchaikovsky managed to write a nearly flawless bit of trivia when he sat down to put silly music to a silly libretto about a fateful faro game and an old countess who is scared to death. That's right, scared to death by a mad gambler named Herman. In this recording, the role of the Countess is fairly well sung by Mezzo-Soprano Valentina Levko, and Herman is less well sung by Tenor Zurab Andzhaparidzye. The other principals validate Russia...
...dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack de Gotha and the Social Register. From London, there was the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy and Candy Van Alen, Gardiner's Island's Robert...
...sooner had the power failed during one dinner than he ordered candles lit, soothing the party-goers with the assurance that candlelight was "far more romantic." By the end, the guests agreed that in all things great and small the planning had been perfect, the execution superb. "Fantastic!" exclaimed Countess Rodolfo Crespi as she departed. "So marvelous," cried Princess Luciana Pignatelli. "What fun," beamed Rebekah Harkness. As for Obolensky, he drew himself up to his full 6-ft. 3-in. height, then confessed: "I'm exhausted. Organizing all these beautiful women is tiring...
...princess from Italy attended, and a countess from Germany, and a bonnie lass from Scotland with her own bagpiper. But the queen was Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 18, daughter of Ike's only son, retired Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and Wife Barbara. The scene was the 13th Annual International Debutante Ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, graced by 62 young ladies from 16 countries and 17 states and the District of Columbia. As usual, second-generation Republicans seemed to have a lock on the proceedings. Barbara Anne was escorted by her brother David's Amherst roommate...
...always regarded how I felt about you as a cosa sagrada [sacred thing]," the novelist wrote. "It was something that struck me like lightning." Now the London auction house of Christie's has announced that it will sell 65 of Papa's letters to Adriana, a Milanese countess and the self-proclaimed heroine of Across the River and Into the Trees. Miss Mary, clinging to her notion that some things are indeed sagrada, declared that as executrix of her husband's estate she will try to keep the auctioned letters from being published, even though some excerpts...