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There is a duet written on a theme and variations with the words, "This duet is a set of variations based on a very short theme." The soprano embarks upon a classical slow-fast aria whose lyrics explain, "I sing this aria twice, the first time I sing it slowly in order that I may display my lyrical quality...the second time so I can display my virtuosity." A busy quartet has the baritone declaiming, "This is the quartet"; the contralto rejoicing, "I have a nice theme"; the soprano warbling, "I just sing la, la, la, la" and the tenor...
WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES FILMS. Duet for Cannihals...
...Duet for Cannibals. Dark lady of American letters Susan Sontag made this first film in 1970. At the time of its Cambridge premiere, a Crimson review which Sontag thought nearly definitive described the work as an attack on bourgeois notions of culture and society through the manipulation of film narrative cliches and excepted audience . The Marxist author of that review found the film exciting others didn...
...most erotic of versions. In one scene of the opera, Carmen does a striptease, then lolls on a bed in her underwear, grabbing at Don José. Later the couple fall into bed and, through some miraculous exercise of lung power, manage to sing their love duet while they are passionately embracing...
Cornell will be accompanied by his wife, Agneta Ekmanner, an actress who has starred in two of his films and in Susan Sontag's Duet for Cannibals...