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This production of The Sea of Lost Time has many other notable touches. The witty and effective music ranges from tropical so flamenco to a guitar rendition of "La Vie en Rose." The use of textile props, from a net hammock to a trailing length of purple cloth, is splendidly handled...
...shines as both Kitri's spirited friend and as the impish twinkling Amour in the dream sequence. Vadim Strukov plays the ridiculous Gamache with just enough clownishness to add some comic relief to the otherwise melodramatic plot. And Adriana Suarez bewitches Barcelona townspeople and audience members alike with her Flamenco elegance as the sultry Street Dancer...
...Rome Opera -- her mother a lyric soprano, her father a dramatic tenor. Her mother Silvana is Cecilia's one and only voice teacher. "She initiated it so slowly and carefully that I wasn't aware of it at first," says the daughter, who also detoured through girlhood enthusiasms for flamenco dancing and the trombone. "The voice," Silvana instructed Cecilia, "must come out naturally, no rigidity or tension -- like yawning." The family is very close, and Cecilia credits her realistic view of the rarefied opera world to her parents' unawed support...
Jaleo is the Spanish word for ruckus or uproar. In 1886, John Singer Sargent masterfully captured the uproar of the flamenco dance in his well-known work "El Jaleo...
Sargent's sketches and studies capture the motion that he saw in the flamenco dance. Some of the works are quick sketches of the faces, hands and arms of the main figure and of the background figures; others are complete works in themselves...