Word: ottavio
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...adaptations, from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet to Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” Shakespeare himself adapted the story from the earlier tale of Pyramus and Thisbe. While most of these adaptations preserve the tragedy of the love story, Ottavio Cappellani’s latest novel “Sicilian Tragedee” takes the tale in the unusual direction towards comedy.At first glance Cappellani’s work, now available in an English translation by Frederika Randall, appears capricious and chaotic, with no main character, plotline, or theme emerging. However...
...show of his dutiful subservience to her, Donna Anna’s betrothed Don Ottavio (professional actor Philippe Pierce) does not reveal his vocal ability until an aria in Act II. After Donna Elvira (professional Krista Wilhelmsen) finds her “tonal center,” the three sing together powerfully about their hatred of the conniving Don Giovanni...
...well-known opera tells the story of one Don Giovanni (split-cast between professional actors Joseph Hammer and Graham Wright), who rapes a woman named Donna Anna (Lauren Woo/Alisa Cassola) and kills her father. Donna Anna makes her fiancé, Don Ottavio (Frank C. Napolitano ’04/Philippe Pierce) swear to take revenge on her behalf...
...Lake Ice Center. The door was sealed with thick tape that kept prying reporters from eavesdropping on the deliberations. It also prevented them from hearing the weeping of the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne. Ron Pfenning is the U.S. referee who would bring Le Gougne's accusations to Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union. Last week he told TIME that Le Gougne, 40, the crucial swing vote of the pairs-skating event the night before, had sobbed to the astonished judges that her decision had been coerced. Le Gougne claimed that she had voted for the Russian...
...Lake Ice Center. The door was sealed with thick tape that kept prying reporters from eavesdropping on the deliberations. It also prevented them from hearing the weeping of the French judge, Marie-Reine Le Gougne. Ron Pfenning is the U.S. referee who would bring Le Gougne's accusations to Ottavio Cinquanta, president of the International Skating Union. Last week he told TIME that Le Gougne, 40, the crucial swing vote of the pairs-skating event the night before, had sobbed to the astonished judges that her decision had been coerced. Le Gougne claimed that she had voted for the Russian...