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...more than $40,000 to refurbish it from reception room to flagstaff, which now flies the Maple Leaf and the blue and white Quebec flag, along with the Stars and Stripes. With an eye to fellow emigres from Quebec, Murphy has ordered a sign saying PARLONS FRANçAIS. Quand même, the Murphys insist they want to become Americans and "live the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Enter the Entrepreneurs | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...worldly manner answer Producer Jean-Pierre Ponelle's demand for a Falstaff who is "no gross giant" and fits into the rumbustious Elizabethan world he recreates. Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff as a child. He is no opera buffoon, but a laughing knight whether on top of the world or crushed by it. As Ponelle says: "Don't forget that Falstaff is an aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Countryside | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...stuff, it was one of the favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar gets to sing one of the tenderest arias in tenor literature, Rachel, quand du Seigneur. Caruso and Martinelli sang the role, and Richard Tucker has been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October and two concert versions. While the opera may not be rich enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Pack | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Britannicus Racine a dit, "Ma tragedie n'est pas moins la disgrace d'Agrippine que la mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Britannicus | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

Britain: Non, I mean ce soir, quand voo partay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: On a Tightrope | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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