Word: octavian
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...full orchestral accompaniment and keeping Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto in German, albeit with English subtitles. The comic opera’s plot—full of surprise, deception, and intrigue—tells the story of the Marschallin Marie Therese, Princess von Werdenberg, and her lover Octavian. The opera begins when the Marschallin’s country cousin, the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, visits her to discuss his engagement plans. She suggests that he offer a chambermaid (actually Octavian in disguise) to his future fiancée, Sophie von Faninal, as an engagement gift in addition...
...vacillates between the political and military intrigue of Caesar and Pompey and the day-to-day trials of two ordinary soldiers from the thirteenth legion. There are wonderful performances all around, highlighted by Polly Walker’s portrayal of Atia, niece of Caesar and mother of Octavian...
...scheming niece; with her flaming red hair and willingness to trade sex for power, she's like a Latin version of The O.C.'s villain Julie Cooper. The series humanizes figures we know as marble busts: Caesar is a calculating pol, Mark Antony (James Purefoy) a narcissistic ass and Octavian (Max Pirkis)--Atia's son and the future Caesar Augustus--a precocious boy with a gift for Machiavellian strategy. The aim is to take those historical giants off their pedestals. "Nothing changes that much," Stevenson tells TIME. "Politicians will always be politicians...
...Romania's national gymnastics school in Deva, western Romania, which dates from the communist era and continues to produce top gymnasts with only a fraction of the resources of big rivals such as the U.S. and China. The past four years have been particularly rough for national coach Octavian Belu and his team. Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold at the Olympics in Sydney after testing positive for pseudoephedrine. Over the next four years, the national team had to be rebuilt twice due to untimely departures of top talent. Belu had to fend off accusations...
...Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly in recitals and concerts around the world. Opera guru Christopher Raeburn, who was among the first to spot Kirchschlager's talent - he also helped put mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on the map - calls her Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier the finest he has heard. "I saw my first Rosenkavalier in 1938 and Angelika is the greatest." Kirchschlager nearly came to Covent Garden eight years ago in Figaro, but had to cancel when she became pregnant. To bring Sophie to the stage...