Word: piccolos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...familiar works; other times they are merely self-indulgent displays of temperament. But, win or lose, the director as hero has emerged as the most powerful force in the theater today. At the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles this month, two repertory staples got the full treatment: the Piccolo Teatro di Milano presented a visionary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Italian, directed by Giorgio Strehler, while London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in its U.S. debut offered the premiere of Andrei Serban's wrongheaded setting of Puccini's Turandot...
Other American theatres selected to participate in the festival include the Goodman Theatre of Chicago, the Negro Ensemble Company, and the National Theatre of the Deaf. International groups include the French Theatre du Soleil and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano...
...little slalom." She makes a wavy motion with one hand, skirting imaginary obstacles to illustrate the difficulty of fitting the U.S. into her European schedule. But she will: a Bohème in Houston and a Romeo et Juliette in Chicago later this year, Mascagni's obscure II Piccolo Marat...
WHEN THE FIRST American patriots were driven to rhetorical and physical attacks on their colonial lords, they did not do so happily. Their thoughts were not the good-natured, piccolo-accompanied, complaints of "taxation without representation" as advertised by subsequent children's textbooks. Instead, the American grievances with England were more often expressed in anguished and sometimes even irrational terms. Their epithets sometimes more closely resembled the utterings of the Ayatollah Khomeini on the subject of the United States than the pastoral musing we know from Thomas Jefferson. The author of the above passage was not an Iranian "student...
Despite her successes, Susan remains the most introverted and soft-spoken of the Rapps, as well as the most well-rounded away from the pool--she is an accomplished piccolo player and flautist. Susan, says one former teammate, is not obsessed with swimming the way some stars...