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Word: porgy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little cherub, but a hot-blooded youth out to touch, hold, kiss and sleep with any woman who will have him. The result is that Cherubino becomes the mirror reflecting everyone else's sensuality. Other directorial details linger in the memory: the Countess singing of her lost love (Porgi amor), while behind her lies a trampled bed, the obvious result of a night of lonely tossing; the haunting way the light in the palace recedes in different layers of intensity as the day wanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Opera Week That Was | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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