Word: emilia
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Back in 1910, when blonde, Pennsylvania-born Florence Wickham was singing Ortrud in Lohengrin and Emilia in Otello at the Met, she never thought of composing an opera herself. Twenty-five years later, long after she had married and retired, she wrote a musical adaptation of As You Like It. Sponsored by her friend, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was produced in tiny Carmel, N.Y., later put on in Germany...
...into show business, she was lifting listeners out of their seats with a pyrotechnical performance of the title role in Rudolf Friml's Rose Marie. Singing with "exquisite coloratura," she made some of Friml's most overworked ballads sound good. Wrote the San Francisco News's Emilia Hodel: "We would have considered it impossible for anyone ever again to make us enjoy Indian Love Call, but Patrice . . . made the song not only lovely but exciting...
...Moor's Pavanne-Othello to music by Purcell. Limón had provided swirling and courtly choreography for his three accompanying dancers (representing lago, Desdemona, Emilia). And with his dramatic, high-cheekboned, deep-eyed face and high-voltage gestures, big Mexican-born Dancer Limón himself was superb as the blackly jealous giant...
Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life." Also dependent on Horace's so-called bounty are his weak-willed, affectionate cousin Mortimer (who is in love with Charlotte), his shadowy aunt Emilia and his five underfed, cheaply clothed children...