Word: lisbon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lisbon Traviata...
...Opera doesn't reject me. The real world does," laments one of the characters in Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata. This rather pathetic but poignant observation marks the sadness at the core of this funny play, now in production at the The New Repertory Theatre...
...Lisbon Traviata. By Terrence McNally. Operatic passions flare in this scathinglyfunny, deeply moving drama about the wrenching breakup of a gay relationship in New York's Greenwich Village. Played out against the soaring arias of the rare Maria Callas recording that gives the play its title, The Lisbon Traviata exposes the hearts and lives of its four searching characters with wit, brilliance and passion. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln Str., Newton Highlands. Wednesdays at 2 and 8 p.m. Thursdays at 8 p.m. Fridays at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays...
...peoples of Africa and the Americas were mostly disastrous. Africa had had a slave trade, conducted by nomadic Muslim merchants, before the seafarers arrived, and the traffic persisted even after European nations outlawed it during the 19th century. In 1434 Portuguese adventurers brought the first black slaves to Lisbon. As Europe's transatlantic colonies grew in importance, so did the need for manual labor. In all, writes Roberts, as many as 10 million slaves were transported to the New World, perhaps 5 million of them in the 18th century alone. Nearly two million more died aboard the crowded prison ships...
...watch fathers and sons walk through minefields, and summary executions for the hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...