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...Duchess of Sanseverina, the real heroine of Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, understood all such things when she considered the prospects of her lover and sighed, "J'ai vu tomber tant de choses que j'avais crues eternelles." (I have seen the fall of so many things that I had thought eternal.) The man with the golden helmet understood that too, no matter who painted...
Edmund of Langley (Christian Kanuth) and Henry Bollingbrook (Ben Evett) are best when they ham up their lines. Particularly in Act IV, when the Duchess of York (Rebecca Clark) frantically defends her son, Duke of Aumerle (Debby Farber), from the King, without realizing her son has already been pardoned, Kanuth and Evett are humorous as they become progressively impatient with her persistence and consequently become more cynical...
Sills, aware that her first priority was to use her celebrity status as newly retired diva to raise funds, often traded a personal appearance for a donation. Inevitably, quality suffered while she concentrated on money; City Opera hit its aesthetic nadir in 1982 with a tired The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach and a ludicrous I Lombardi by Verdi, which Sills didn't see until the dress rehearsal. "I have had my turkeys," she admits. "Had I seen it earlier, I would have pulled Lombardi out of the repertory. But two days before, I didn't have...
...contrast, Odette de Crecy (Ornella Mutti), has what might tactfully be called 'tacky taste'. She is, moreover, a demimondaine-little more than a prostitute on the social scale--to her snobbish patroness, the Duchess de Guermantes (Fanny Ardant...
...Duchess is what the locals call Simons' imperious mother. He calls her the Doctor because she teaches something cultural at a nearby college. She also knows how to refill her bourbon glass gracefully, sit appealingly on a wicker sofa and pass on the literary tradition. Some of Simons' earliest playthings were books from his mother's library; he is obviously on his way to being well read, although he takes pains to hide the fact...