Word: figaro
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...FRANCE J'Accuse The scandal surrounding slush-fund payments by the Elf oil company threatened to implicate the current government as former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas provided Le Figaro newspaper with fresh allegations. Dumas, sentenced last month to six months in jail on corruption charges, said Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine knew about illicit payments to secure the purchase of a German oil refinery for Elf. Guigou and Védrine, former presidential advisers to François Mitterrand, denied the allegations...
While Europe's internal embargoes are, by some measures, stricter than the USDA's, some in the European community detect a whiff of protectionism in Washington's moves. David Byrne, E.U. health commissioner, called the new regulations "excessive and unnecessary." The French newspaper Le Figaro groused that the world is "divided between contaminated countries and those barricading themselves behind drastic health and commercial barriers." The French government, however, has remained tellingly quiet. And in Germany, the media voiced full-throated approval of the new restrictions. "Animals are being dragged through the whole world in huge numbers," wrote the daily Tagesspiel...
...Huntington Avenue, Mozart's music - the play of its light and intelligence, its frolic and clarity - fills a theater packed with young people. It is a Boston University student production of "The Marriage of Figaro," done in Italian, "Le Nozze de Figaro," the full four acts, uncut, lasting almost four hours. It seems like half an hour. The lovely production could be moved to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera without much apology or revision...
...youth and talent of the performers that makes the evening so moving - and the immense, concentrated hard work that went to stage "Figaro"'s bright silliness. Mozart's late-18th-century opera flows from the mouths and instruments (violins, cellos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, timpani) of early-21st-century students, fresh and young. They put dew on the music of another young man, long dead, and roses in its notes...
...Dispiriting. The Trazom Effect goes to work on the lazy, the ignorant, the passive. But I was there when the students of the Boston University School for the Arts Opera Programs and Chamber Orchestra performed "Le Nozze de Figaro." Putting together that magic four hours required brains, talent, and training - after all, apart from mastering the gaily demanding music, they had to learn Italian in order to sing the libretto...