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According to the poet's text, Russian Nobleman Nikolai Rezanov sailed into San Francisco harbor in 1806 intending to trade with California's Spanish colonizers. Instead he fell in love with Concha, the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco. As Rezanov's ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced...
...impoverished nobleman who worked as a village schoolteacher and parish organist, Wyszynski was born in 1901 in the northeastern village of Zuzela and was ordained in 1924. He later wrote extensively on labor and rural problems and earned the affectionate nickname of the "worker priest." Active in the anti-Nazi resistance as an underground army chaplain in World War II, he was consecrated as the Bishop of Lublin in 1946. Two and a half years later, Pope Pius XII named him Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, an appointment that also made Wyszynski, at 47, the Primate of Poland-leader...
Ottone, a Roman nobleman, came home one night to discover his mistress, Poppea, in the arms of the notorious Emperor Nero. The Emperor finds time to dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero...
Nikita Khrushchev denounced them as "foul-smelling armchairs with wheels," but the comrade who owns a car today treasures it as much as a Russian nobleman once valued his Fabergé eggs. The U.S.S.R. has only about 5 million cars, compared with 104 million in the U.S. The list of models available to the average Soviet citizen is small and the price high, ranging from the tiny two-door Zaporozhets ($6,000) to the large Volga sedan...
That night the claque never materialized. Neither, in a sense, did Scotto's performance. Possibly unnerved by all the squabbling, she was not at her best vocally or dramatically. Pavarotti came through splendidly. Playing a 17th century nobleman who is enmeshed in a conflict with the Venetian Inquisition, he made bold entrances in full cry. His spacious second-act aria, Cielo e mar, which used to serve Caruso well, was traced in long, limpid lines that glowed with emotion. ins voice soared out of the big ensembles, seeming to carry the chorus into the air with him. At the curtain...