Word: luisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made his melodramatic vow to free the Spanish colonies in South America...
...difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless C's above high C. Among high coloraturas of the past half century, Luisa Tetrazzini was one of the most famed for her high F#. Half a dozen years ago, however, in the small provincial opera at Bielefeld, Germany, a newly-hired soprano sat practicing cadenzas at a piano, inadvertently sang up to a high G. Surprised, she tried some more, later that...
...beginnings; and now he is engaged to Sofia, who is far from pretty but has a title. Pietro thinks of himself as the most honest and well-meaning of men, a kind of Roman Buchmanite. When his fiancée's brother, Matteo, quarrels with his wife, Maria Luisa, because she has discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily, is trying to nerve herself to get even with him by taking a lover. She dislikes Pietro, but for lack of anyone better and to spite her sister...
Sofia is even more of a busybody than Pietro. She not only tries to patch up her brother's marriage by arguing with Maria Luisa but makes a missionary journey to the mistress, Andreina. Andreina is beautiful but far from dumb. When she learns that Matteo's money is not his but his wife's, and that consequently there is no chance of being kept by him any longer and no point in marrying him if he got a divorce, she begins to lay her complicated plans for revenge. First she lures Pietro away from his fianc...
...Pietro is madly in love with Andreina, and imagines that because she has become his mistress she loves him too. His faith is soon sorely tried. Stefano, the man who first seduced Andreina when she was 14, appears again, turns out to be Maria Luisa's brother. Stefano is now a cripple and nearly penniless; his rich sister will have nothing to do with him. Andreina hates Stefano, but to plague Pietro she ousts him, takes the cripple again as her lover. Hatred of everyone and everything becomes more & more her guiding passion. By Roman law, crippled Brother Stefano...