Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week she and the New York City Opera will recreate all three during a three-week guest stand in Los Angeles (planned for next spring is a new production by Beverly and the company of another Donizetti queen, Maria Stuarda). Early next month, she will give two performances of Lucia di Lammermoor in New Orleans, then fly to Israel for a month-long concert tour. After that, her appointment book lists dates as far ahead...
...falls in with an immigrant ragamuffin nicknamed "The Fox"-an Italian version of the Artful Dodger -who gives his friend harsh glimpses of life in the New World, where it is often necessary to steal food just to stay alive. Joe also meets a soft-eyed refugee named Lucia. They huddle together on the fire escape of the Metropolitan Opera, listening to the music drifting out from the grand hall. These scenes have a kind of ruthless poignancy that the rest of the film seldom achieves...
Soledad is a part of the California that is not California, that is, it is a place not of movie stars or cablecars, but of pears and prunes, pear-pickers and prune-pickers. Walled in by the Diablo and Santa Lucia ranges, it is burned and dusty throughout the summer and rainy in winter. Soledad is not the kind of place to which one would go to leave one's heart...
...swimmable, sunbathable seashore available to the public, the would-be bathers began to rebel. In 1965 hundreds of visitors at St.Raphaël, about 25 miles west of Cannes, demonstrated against the construction of a stone wall that would have blocked access to the charming cove of Santa Lucia. In 1967, at nearby Le Lavandou, local Provençaux brought out their hunting rifles in an effort to liberate the "abusively expropriated" beaches. Sympathizing with the protesters, Film Maker René Clair and Playwright André Roussin founded an association called Mare Nostrum to lobby for freer beaches...
...will have both unfiltered high frequencies and unrumbled lows. Hardly comparable to the sound of the LP era, they nevertheless restore a forgotten adequacy of the sonic -and artistic-achievements of the past. As a result, nearly forgotten singers like Conchita Supervia, Fernando de Lucia and Maria Nemeth will be resurrected and sent along to collectors in their original sonic quality...