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...14th century Castile, more obedient to the conventions of courtly love than to the discipline of his vows. He falls in love with a lady whom he has seen in church, and dashes out into the world, not even knowing her name. He eventually learns that she is Leonora (Shirley Verrett), but for an unforgivable amount of time it eludes him that she is the mistress of King Alfonso XI (Sherrill Milnes), even though a chap wearing a crown is always lurking about her or walking up and down the steps to a throne. There are also political complications...
Verdi: II Trovatore (Soprano Joan Sutherland, Mezzo Marilyn Home, Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, Baritone Ingvar Wixell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge conductor, London; 3 LPs). Having come only recently to the roles of Leonora and Manrico, Sutherland and Pavarotti will undoubtedly have additional things to say about them in the future. For now, it can be said that this is a bella voce album of the first order. Devotees of the Leontyne Price-Placido Domingo set, or Price-Richard Tucker, or especially the old Zinka Milanov-Jussi Björling classic-all much more dramatically vivid-may safely...
...nurses, Leonora Perez, 33, and Filipina Narciso, 31, stoutly maintained their innocence, and their case became a cause celebre. Nursing groups rallied behind them, and their supporters in both. Manila and the U.S. raised a defense fund of more than $100,000. At the University of Michigan, many feminists and liberals regarded the nurses as victims of an overzealous local FBI office eager to redeem itself after its failure to crack the still unsolved kidnaping of former Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa that same summer...
...Leonora McCroskey--Memorial Church...
While waiting for Leonora, Beard encounters Paola's jealous husband and quarrels over aesthetic theory and race relations, is raped by a group of feminist women (hence the title?) and in the midst of all this chaos, manages to complete a screenplay for a Hollywood musical on Lord Byron, the Shelleys and Frankenstein...