Word: montezuma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kings, queens, demons and two surprisingly resilient corpses played leading roles as three major opera premires took place in as many cities last week. At the Opera Company of Boston, the scene was 16th century Mexico in the long-awaited US. premiere of Roger Sessions' Montezuma. At the Baltimore Opera Company, it was 14th century Portugal in the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's Ines de Castro. At the New York City Opera, the setting was the land of Talmudic legend in the U.S. premiere of Ashmedai by Israel's Josef Tal. All three operas were sung...
...whiff of the stuff can turn contemporary chili aficionados as lyrical as the 19th century chuckwagon cook. To the true believer, a sizzling chile con carne is manna from Montezuma, a concoction of beef, green peppers, herbs and other combustibles with an aroma, as the International Chili Society puts it, that "should generate rapture akin to a lover's kiss." As hot as the dish are the arguments that simmer around its preparation. Should a true chili include beans? Tomatoes? Corn meal? Onions? Is beef the best came? How many hours -or days-should it be cooked...
Next spring she will present Montezuma by the American composer Roger Sessions. It is a spectacle of formidable musical and technical dimensions that Caldwell has wanted to stage for years. In 1971, just to get the feel of the thing, she went to Mexico and retraced the victory trail of the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez. Last week she was back again, studying the pyramids in Teotihuacan...
...give advice, evaluate your skill, rate it for future charters, and briskly pull you out of trouble in emergencies-as when, on the third day out, I forgot to watch the course when setting trolls for barracuda and nearly put the Carib on a notorious obstacle named Montezuma Shoal. Otherwise you sail yourself, needing only one friend as crew, and there is no faster way to learn how to handle the stiff, roomy 39-and 41-footers that are the staple of Windward chartering...
...seen over the Sumo wrestler's armpits. By now, the situation had become impossible. The rain was falling even harder, and thousands of water-logged golf fans who had neither seen nor heard of Regalado 30 minutes earlier were cheering wildly, as if he had at last consummated Montezuma's revenge. My prediction had been correct: the 17th had been the decisive hole. But Killer had picked the winner--and he had salvaged my own personal victory over the schlock-slingers in the press tent by giving me his exclusive account of the action...