Word: dalila
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with TIME inside Canto Grande two weeks ago, McNamara was careful to refer all questions about Senderista politics to the smartly dressed, unfailingly polite "delegate" inmates who run the cellblock. Delegate Dalila claimed that all the pavilion's inmates belong to the "authentic" Peruvian Communist Party, which is how Senderistas see themselves. These true believers disdain both the Soviet Union, which they consider to be as imperialist as the U.S., and today's China. Their goal is to establish a workers' state along the lines of Mao Zedong's China. "We believe in armed struggle to take power," said...
...tenor sang only the premiere), leaving Mitwali in debt. The extravaganza was staged over the initial objections of Muslim fundamentalists and Egyptian antiquities officials, who feared the vibrations and crowds might damage the monuments. Still, Domingo says he hopes to return some day to sing Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila. Now that will put the ruins to the test...
...productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed; La Traviata and Parade, a trio of one-acters by Satie, Ravel and Poulenc, will probably proceed as planned. As many as seven scheduled repertory items-including Das Rheingold, Samson et Dalila and La Gioconda-will most likely have to be shelved. But the Met hopes to mount a season of some 15 productions, featuring such stellar performers as Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Home and Placido Domingo. Fittingly, the opening night of the company's resurrected season will be a concert performance...
Unfortunately for opera lovers, the discord has already cost five weeks of performances, including the season premiere of Turandot, starring Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe. It will be two or three weeks before the house reopens. For some productions, like Samson et Dalila, Das Rheingold and Gotterdammerung, the agreement almost certainly has come too late. A new staging of Queen of Spades, planned for next March, may also be scratched. Even so, there were few tears at Lincoln Center. If the accord had not come now, there might have been no season...