Word: giovanni
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From Mozart's Don Giovanni to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the figure of the libertine, that politically incorrect swine, has swaggered provocatively through 200 years of operatic history. Cads, bounders and rakehells abound onstage: one thinks not only of the lecherous Don and Tom Rakewell but of Nerone, Pinkerton and Eugene Onegin as well -- moral reprobates who give hardly a second thought to the consequences of their actions...
...black Mercedes limo, he gave meroses, I gave him a boutonniere, and we went tothe North End to a restaurant called Giovanni's,It was fabulous. I think I'll definitely go to the[Eliot] Fete all four years...
Winthrop House Music Society.The Mid Sussex Boysingers, conducted by Roger Lunn. Di Giovanni Hall, 29 Mt. Auburn St. Donations will be taken...
...loveliest voices in opera today. Thanks to her supple, dulcet soprano and winning stage personality -- and with the powerful patronage of Met artistic director James Levine -- she has risen to worldwide fame in secondary roles that ordinarily do not make stars, parts like Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Battle's presence in a cast or with an orchestra practically guarantees a sold-out house; her albums, whether art songs or spirituals, are consistent best sellers...
...Book of Guys to champion humor, these stories would have to be funny. Keillor's humor consists chiefly of rank anachronism and clumsy juxtaposition: A Wild West cowboy buys a condo from a realtor; Dionysus hits 50, gets de-deified, and sees a therapist about his midlife crisis; Don Giovanni dispenses romantic advice from the Sportsman Bar, where he plays piano. Maybe these stories would be funnier if Keillor were telling them himself. Perhaps the humor of setting one story in a town called Piscacatawamaquoddy (and then referring to it by name much too often) lies in the delivery...