Word: pizarro
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...against police lines around the opera, listening to Fidelia through loudspeakers. Inside, the work's gloomy sets and stern plot seemed hardly a match for the festive occasion, but the audience cheered the triumphant aptness of its subject: freedom. Of the stars, Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler as Don Pizarro was a standout; Soprano Martha Moedl as Leonore was more effective dramatically than vocally. The orchestra, conducted by Opera Director Karl Böhm, won six salvos of applause after it played the famous Leonore Overture...
...attention of Peru, and of Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez and other interested bystanders, now centers on the manner of the change, and the man whom Odria will choose to sit in the carved presidential armchair once used by Peru's Conquistador Francisco Pizarro...
...CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...
Flashiest items in the show are masses of crowns, earplugs, nose pendants, beakers and breastplates, all done in pure gold but varying in color from silvery to deep yellow. Such treasures lured Pizarro and his conquistadores to Peru, and thereby led to swift and bloody destruction of native culture...
...Before Pizarro, the Andes have no recorded history. One tribe, the Mochicas, may have developed a system of hieroglyphics similar to the Mayan, but like the Mayan it has never been deciphered. Having no records to go by, archeologists are necessarily vague in categorizing Andean art, but laymen may find a certain poetic fascination in the mere names of the main civilizations: Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Cavernas, Quimbaya, Chanapata, Chiripa, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Chimu, Chibcha, Inca...