Word: marquez
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...Penella's 1916 Spanish opera El Gato Montes as well as Antonio Carlos Gomes' 1870 Il Guarany, written, alas, in Italian but set in the Amazon. Meanwhile, the Houston Grand Opera offers the world premiere of Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, based on stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...movie is also filled with the sort of magical realism that (in the tradition of "Like Water for Chocolate," "House of the Spirits" and ultimately Gabriel Garcia Marquez) has recently become a trademark of Latin American productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...
Arafat: These are not bilateral agreements. These are international agreements. Who signed the last one? Me and Rabin. Then President [Hosni] Mubarak, King Hussein, [Secretary of State Warren] Christopher, [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Kozyrev, [Spanish Prime Minister Felipe] Gonzalez [Marquez] in the name of the European Union...
Chronicle is adapted from a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Set in an "isolated Latin American town," it's a tale of stiff-backed, implacable male pride. A handsome groom (Alexandre Proia), on discovering that his lovely bride (Saundra Santiago) is no virgin, initiates a chain of retribution that leads to a tragedy and ramifies through town, blighting one life after another...
Daniele, who has staged such musicals as Once on This Island and Falsettoland, not only conceived but directed and choreographed Chronicle as well. Yet in the novella's passage from page to stage, something of its fateful weight has been forfeited. For one thing, Garcia Marquez's signature tone of sagacious melancholy is necessarily lost. For another, Bob Telson's music fails to deepen or extend the characters. In musical theater the audience longs to feel that it knows someone much better after listening to him or her sing for a couple of minutes. But Telson's priorities seem...