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...most audiences, Hispanic opera means Carmen (written, of course, by a Frenchman). Placido Domingo, in his new role as artistic director of the Washington Opera, means to broaden the definition. This season the company will present Manuel 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...
Hero Nino Manfredi is a cheerful, sensitive young chap who chauffeurs cadavers around Madrid. One day he meets the public executioner's daughter (Emma Penella), a deep-bosomed spinster whose marriage opportunities have been blighted by her father's profession. Already bound by the facts of death, the daughter and the hearse driver soon begin to share the facts of life as well. When the girl becomes pregnant, the couple get married-at a macabre economy-sized ceremony in a busy chapel where the flowers, candlelight and carpeting are spirited away as they...
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